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House Roll Call 315, 98th Congress · September 13, 1983

TO RECOMMIT H.R. 3520 TO THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT IT BACK FORTHWITH CONTAINING AN AMENDMENT THAT WOULD PROHIBIT EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS AUTHORIZED FOR NONREHABILITATION PROGRAMS IN ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT UNLESS THE DISTRICT HAS A PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING FUNCTIONAL LITERACY AS A CONDITION FOR GRADUATION FROM SECONDARY PUBLIC SCHOOLS. (MOTION FAILED)

128 yea · 275 nay19 not voting or present
Democrat6 yea · 241 nay
Republican126 yea · 38 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3520 ↗

A bill to extend and improve the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, to provide for the operation of the Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults, to create a select commission on Federal Assistance to Disabled Americans, and to increase certain authorizations of appropriations for programs within the jurisdiction of the Committee on Education and Labor.

Policy area: Labor and Employment — 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.

  • Labor & WagesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Adding a literacy condition for high school graduation does not clearly align with employer or worker priority.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (133)

Nay (281)

Not voting or present (19)

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