Senate Roll Call 67, 96th Congress · April 30, 1979
TO TABLE AN APPEAL ON THE RULING OF THE CHAIR CONCERNING THE JEPSON AMENDMENT TO S. 210. THE JEPSON AMENDMENT, RULED NOT GERMANE, REQUIRED THE SECRETARY OF EDUCATION TO PROMULGATE CERTAIN RULES CONCERNING UNION AFFILIATION. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 4
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An act to establish a Department of Education, and for other purposes.
Policy area: Education — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.
How this vote is scored
Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.
- EducationDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Tabling appeal on ruling of chair is a procedural germaneness vote.
Tagged by: policy-area:Education
Axis: Expand federal role ← → Reduce federal role
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (69)
- Max Baucus
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (24)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (7)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
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