Date: July 20, 1979
Subject: Educational Quotas
Description: Helms (R-NC) motion to table (kill) the Javits (R-NY) substitute to the Helms-Hayakawa (R-CA) amendment. The Javits substitute which was subsequently approved, although prohibiting racial or sexual quotas in education, entirely undermined the original Helms-Hayakawa language by allowing for timestables, goals, ratios or other numerical requirements.
Result: Motion to Table Failed, 18-70
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