To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for the establishment of the Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity Program.

Vote results

No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).

Cosponsors

48 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 47 Democrats

1 of 48 cosponsors (2%) are from the other party.

Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Thomas Barrett (D-WI), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Donna Christensen (D-VI), William Clay (D-MO), Eva Clayton (D-NC), James Clyburn (D-SC), John Conyers (D-MI), Danny Davis (D-IL), Ronald Dellums (D-CA), Julian Dixon (D-CA), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Bob Etheridge (D-NC), Lane Evans (D-IL), Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS), Chaka Fattah (D-PA), Bob Filner (D-CA), Floyd Flake (D-NY), Harold Ford (D-TN), Martin Frost (D-TX), Henry Gonzalez (D-TX), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Jesse Jackson (D-IL), William Jefferson (D-LA), Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-MI), John Lewis (D-GA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), James McGovern (D-MA), Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) and 18 more.

More from the sponsor

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• H.R. 1345 (105th) National Drug Policy Act of 1997
• H.R. 2212 (105th) HIV Prevention Outreach Act of 1997
• H.R. 2944 (105th) Social Security Family Protection Act of 1997

Sponsor’s state and district

Maryland in Congress · MD-7 district