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Senate Roll Call 172, 99th Congress · September 10, 1985

TO TABLE, S 47, A BILL TO PREVENT FEDERAL COURTS, INCLUDING THE SUPREME COURT, FROM DECIDING CASES INVOLVING SCHOOL PRAYER.

62 yea · 36 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat40 yea · 8 nay
Republican23 yea · 28 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 47 ↗

Voluntary School Prayer Act of 1985

Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues — 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.

  • Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”

    model(0.90): Tabling a bill that restricts federal court jurisdiction on school prayer protects federal civil rights judicial review.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues

    Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections

Who voted which way

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

Yea (63)

Nay (36)

Not voting or present (1)

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