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Senate Roll Call 490, 99th Congress · June 3, 1986

TO PROVIDE A SUBSTITUTE FOR THE STAFFORD, VT) AMENDMENT TO S 1965, HIGHER EDUCATION ACT, TO CUT PROPOSED INCREASES IN PELL GRANTS FOR POOR STUDENTS AND MAKE OTHER REVISIONS IN COLLEGE STUDENT AID, THEREBY DECREASING THE COST OF THE BILL BY $1.5 BILLION OVER FIVE YEARS.

60 yea · 34 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat10 yea · 33 nay
Republican51 yea · 1 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 “Reduce federal role”

    model(0.95): Cuts proposed spending increases for federal Pell grants and student aid.

    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 (61)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (5)

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