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National
Key Vote
No Child Left Behind Act
Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote to adopt a conference report that authorizes $26.5 billion to update and reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, enacted in 1965.
Highlights:
-Implements annual testing of students grades three through eight in reading and mathematics to assess their progress and the performance of the schools they attend
-Holds low-achieving schools accountable for failing to demonstrate progress from year to year and prescribes improvement programs for schools which do not meet standards
-Provides more flexibility for states and local districts in spending federal funds
-Stipulates that military recruiters have guaranteed access to school premises and pupils
-Authorizes $1 billion in federal aid to create or enhance computer technology systems
-Withholds federal aid to any school district that prevents or denies students from participating in constitutionally protected prayer in public schools
-Withholds federal aid to any school district that denies Boy Scouts the use of school facilities but allows other youth groups to use those same facilities
Link to Legislation: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c107:hr1:
House Passage: 05/23/2001 : Bill Passed: 384 - 45 (Roll no. 145) Senate Passage With Amendment: 06/14/2001 : Bill Passed 91 - 8 (Record Vote Number 192) House Conference Report Vote: 12/13/2001 : Conference Report Adopted: 381 - 41 (Roll no. 497) Senate Conference Report Vote: 12/18/2001 : Conference Report Adopted 87 - 10 (Record Vote Number 371) President Passage: 01/08/2002 : Signed Became Public Law Number 107-110
Sponsor: Rep. Boehner, John (R-OH)
Cosponsors: Rep. Armey, Richard (R-TX) (out of office)
Rep. Bachus, Spencer (R-AL)
Rep. Baker, Richard Hugh (R-LA) (out of office)
Rep. Ballenger, Cass (-NC) (out of office)
Rep. Barr, Robert Jr. (-GA) (out of office)
Rep. Biggert, Judy (R-IL)
Rep. Bonilla, Henry (R-TX) (out of office)
Rep. Bono Mack, Mary (R-CA)
Rep. Brown, Henry Jr. (R-SC)
Rep. Burr, Richard (R-NC) (out of office)
Rep. Calvert, Ken (R-CA)
Rep. Camp, David (R-MI)
Rep. Castle, Michael (R-DE)
Rep. Chambliss, Clarence (-GA) (out of office)
Rep. Collins, Mac (R-GA) (out of office)
Rep. Combest, Larry (-TX) (out of office)
Rep. Cooksey, John (R-LA) (out of office)
Rep. Crenshaw, Ander (R-FL)
Rep. Culberson, John (R-TX)
Rep. Cunningham, Randall (R-CA) (out of office)
Rep. DeLay, Thomas (R-TX) (out of office)
Rep. DeMint, Jim (-SC) (out of office)
Rep. Deal, Nathan (R-GA) (out of office)
Rep. Diaz-Balart, Lincoln (R-FL)
Rep. Dreier, David (R-CA)
Rep. Ehlers, Vernon (R-MI)
Rep. Ehrlich, Robert Jr. (-MD) (out of office)
Rep. Fletcher, Ernest (-KY) (out of office)
Rep. Fossella, Vito Jr. (R-NY) (out of office)
Rep. Frelinghuysen, Rodney (R-NJ)
Rep. Gekas, George (R-PA) (out of office)
Rep. Gillmor, Paul (R-OH) (out of office)
Rep. Goss, Porter (-FL) (out of office)
Rep. Graham, Lindsey (R-SC) (out of office)
Rep. Granger, Kay (R-TX)
Rep. Green, Mark (R-WI) (out of office)
Rep. Greenwood, James (-PA) (out of office)
Rep. Hart, Melissa (R-PA) (out of office)
Rep. Hastert, J. Dennis (R-IL) (out of office)
Rep. Hayes, Robert (R-NC) (out of office)
Rep. Hilleary, Van (R-TN) (out of office)
Rep. Hobson, David Lee (R-OH) (out of office)
Rep. Horn, Stephen (R-CA) (out of office)
| Rep. Isakson, John (-GA) (out of office)
Rep. Issa, Darrell (R-CA)
Rep. Johnson, Samuel (R-TX)
Rep. Keller, Ric (R-FL) (out of office)
Rep. Kingston, Jack (R-GA)
Rep. Kolbe, James (R-AZ) (out of office)
Rep. LaTourette, Steven (R-OH)
Rep. Linder, John (R-GA)
Rep. McInnis, Scott (-CO) (out of office)
Rep. McKeon, Howard (R-CA)
Rep. Mica, John (R-FL)
Rep. Miller, Dan (R-FL) (out of office)
Rep. Miller, Gary (R-CA)
Rep. Northup, Anne (R-KY) (out of office)
Rep. Norwood, Charles Jr. (R-GA) (out of office)
Rep. Nussle, James (R-IA) (out of office)
Rep. Osborne, Thomas William (R-NE) (out of office)
Rep. Ose, Doug (-CA) (out of office)
Rep. Oxley, Michael (R-OH) (out of office)
Rep. Peterson, John (R-PA) (out of office)
Rep. Petri, Thomas (R-WI)
Rep. Pickering, Charles Jr. (R-MS) (out of office)
Rep. Portman, Robert (R-OH) (out of office)
Rep. Pryce, Deborah (R-OH) (out of office)
Rep. Putnam, Adam (R-FL)
Rep. Radanovich, George (R-CA)
Rep. Roukema, Marge (R-NJ) (out of office)
Rep. Royce, Edward (R-CA)
Rep. Schaffer, Robert (-CO) (out of office)
Rep. Schrock, Edward (-VA) (out of office)
Rep. Shays, Christopher (R-CT) (out of office)
Rep. Shimkus, John (R-IL)
Rep. Sununu, John (R-NH) (out of office)
Rep. Sweeney, John (R-NY) (out of office)
Rep. Tiahrt, Todd (R-KS)
Rep. Tiberi, Patrick (R-OH)
Rep. Traficant, James Jr. (-OH) (out of office)
Rep. Upton, Frederick (R-MI)
Rep. Watts, Julius Caesar Jr. (R-OK) (out of office)
Rep. Weldon, W. Curtis (R-PA) (out of office)
Rep. Wolf, Frank (R-VA)
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