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Senate Roll Call 489, 99th Congress · June 3, 1986

TO TABLE THE HELMS AMENDMENT TO S 1965, HIGHER EDUCATION (CONTINUED) ACT, TO PROHIBIT FEDERAL COURTS FROM REQUIRING SCHOOL BUSING EXCEPT IN CERTAIN CASES.

45 yea · 50 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat31 yea · 13 nay
Republican14 yea · 37 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1965 ↗

Higher Education Amendments of 1986

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 “Expand federal role”

    model(0.90): Tabling a restriction on federal court busing orders preserves federal court authority.

    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 (45)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (5)

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