House Roll Call 524, 98th Congress · February 23, 1984

TO AMEND H.R. 2708, A BILL TO FURTHER THE NATIONAL SECURITY AND IMPROVE THE ECONOMY OF THE UNITED STATES BY PROVIDING GRANTS FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF PROFICIENCY IN CRITICAL LANGUAGES, FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION, AND FOR PER CAPITA GRANTS TO REIMBURSE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO PROMOTE THE GROWTH AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF POSTSECONDARY FOREIGN LANGUAGE INSTRUCTION. THE GEKAS AMENDMENT PROHIBITS APPROPRIATION OF FUNDS TO CARRY OUT THIS BILL UNLESS SUCH FUNDS WERE APPROPRIATED IN A MEASURE CONTAINING NO OTHER APPROPRIATION TO CARRY OUT ANY OTHER LAW. (MOTION FAILED)

145 yea · 243 nay34 not voting or present

Democrat14 yea · 224 nay

Republican136 yea · 24 nay

Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2708 ↗

Foreign Language Assistance for National Security Act of 1983

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.

EducationA yea counts toward “Reduce federal role”
model(0.90): Restricting appropriations for federal language grant programs reduces the federal educational role.
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 (151)

Nay (248)

Not voting or present (34)

Druie Douglas Barnard Jr.Did not vote
William Hill BonerDid not vote
David E. BoniorDid not vote
Don Leroy BonkerDid not vote
James Thomas BroyhillDid not vote
Barber Benjamin Conable Jr.Did not vote
Norman Edward D’AmoursDid not vote
Dennis Edward EckartDid not vote
Ben ErdreichDid not vote
Thomas Michael FogliettaDid not vote
Edwin Bell ForsytheDid not vote
Don FuquaDid not vote
Sam Blakeley Hall Jr.Did not vote
Kent Ronald HanceDid not vote
Charles Floyd HatcherDid not vote
Cecil Landau HeftelDid not vote
James M. JeffordsDid not vote
James Marvin LeathDid not vote
Marilyn Laird LloydDid not vote
Ronald Charles MarleneeDid not vote
David O’Brien MartinDid not vote
Bob McEwenDid not vote
Matthew Francis McHughDid not vote
Jerry Mumford PattersonDid not vote
Ron PaulDid not vote
Toby A. RothDid not vote
James Haas ScheuerDid not vote
James Michael ShannonDid not vote
Robert Freeman SmithDid not vote
Fernand Joseph St. GermainDid not vote
William J. TauzinDid not vote
Wes WatkinsDid not vote
Charles WilsonDid not vote
James Claude Wright Jr.Did not vote

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