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Senate Roll Call 289, 100th Congress · September 30, 1987

TO TABLE THE NICKLES, OK AMENDMENT TO HR 2713, THE FISCAL 1988 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATION, WHICH WOULD BAN THE USE OF FEDERAL OR DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA FUNDS FOR ABORTIONS UNLESS THE MOTHER'S LIFE IS ENDANGERED.

60 yea · 39 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat44 yea · 9 nay
Republican16 yea · 30 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2713 ↗

District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1988

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 “Expand access”

    model(0.90): Tabling the amendment kills a ban on using public funds for abortions, protecting access.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

Who voted which way

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

Yea (60)

Nay (39)

Not voting or present (1)

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