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Vote Data for HR13111 (91st Congress)


Date: December 17, 1969

Subject: Weaken School Freedom-of-Choice Language

Description: Scott (R-PA) amendment adding the words "except as required by the Constitution," at the beginning of the section barring use of funds to force a school district to take action involving busing of students, abolition of any school, or assignment of any student to any particular school against the wishes of his parents. This amendment watered down the House-passed freedom-of-choice school desegregation plan. The freedom-of-choice plan was opposed by the Nixon administration.

Result: Agreed to, 52-37

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Voted in Favor:

George Aiken (R-VT)  
Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
Henry Bellmon (R-OK)  
Caleb Boggs (R-DE)  
Edward Brooke (R-MA)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Clifford Case (R-NJ)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  
Marlow Cook (R-KY)  
Alan Cranston (D-CA)  
Thomas Dodd (D-CT)  
Robert Dole (R-KS)  
Peter Dominick (R-CO)  
Thomas Eagleton (D-MO)  
Hiram Fong (R-HI)  
Charles Goodell (R-NY)  
Mike Gravel (D-AK)  
Robert Griffin (R-MI)  
Fred Harris (D-OK)  
Vance Hartke (D-IN)  
Philip Hart (D-MI)  
Mark Hatfield (R-OR)  
Harold Hughes (D-IA)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
Mike Mansfield (D-MT)  
Charles Mathias (R-MD)  
Eugene McCarthy (D-MN)  
Gale McGee (D-WY)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
Thomas McIntyre (D-NH)  
Lee Metcalf (D-MT)  
Walter Mondale (D-MN)  
Joseph Montoya (D-NM)  
Frank Moss (D-UT)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  
Bob Packwood (R-OR)  
John Pastore (D-RI)  
James Pearson (R-KS)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
Charles Percy (R-IL)  
Winston Prouty (R-VT)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  
William Saxbe (R-OH)  
Richard Schweiker (R-PA)  
Hugh Scott (R-PA)  
Ted Stevens (R-AK)  
Joseph Tydings (D-MD)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  
Ralph Yarborough (D-TX)  
Stephen Young (D-OH)  

Voted Against:

Jim Allen (D-AL)  
Gordon Allott (R-CO)  
Howard Baker, Jr. (R-TN)  
Wallace Bennett (R-UT)  
Alan Bible (D-NV)  
Harry Byrd, Jr. (D-VA)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
Norris Cotton (R-NH)  
Carl Curtis (R-NE)  
James Eastland (D-MS)  
Allen Ellender (D-LA)  
Sam Ervin (D-NC)  
Paul Fannin (R-AZ)  
William Fulbright (D-AR)  
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)  
Albert Gore (D-TN)  
Edward Gurney (R-FL)  
Clifford Hansen (R-WY)  
Spessard Holland (D-FL)  
Roman Hruska (R-NE)  
Everett Jordan (D-NC)  
Len Jordan (R-ID)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
John McClellan (D-AR)  
Jack Miller (R-IA)  
George Murphy (R-CA)  
Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME)  
Ralph Smith (R-IL)  
John Sparkman (D-AL)  
William Spong (D-VA)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  
John Tower (R-TX)  
John Williams (R-DE)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  

Did Not Vote:

Clinton Anderson (D-NM)  
John Sherman Cooper (R-KY)  
Ernest Hollings (D-SC)  
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Karl Mundt (R-SD)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
Richard Russell (D-GA)  
Stuart Symington (D-MO)  

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