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House Roll Call 835, 100th Congress · September 28, 1988

TO RECOMMIT TO THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE HR 4776, FISCAL 1989 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS, TO DEMAND LANGUAGE TO BAN THE USE OF FUNDS FOR ABORTIONS EXCEPT IN CASES WHERE THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER WOULD BE AT RISK.

228 yea · 188 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat84 yea · 151 nay
Republican144 yea · 35 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4776 ↗

District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1989

Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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.

  • Abortion & ContraceptionA yea counts toward “Restrict access”

    model(0.95): Recommitting with instructions to restrict abortion funding narrows abortion access.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) An abortion funding limitation rider is a social policy debate where monetary impact is incidental.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (229)

Nay (188)

Not voting or present (14)

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