Senate Roll Call 428, 100th Congress · January 28, 1988
TO AMEND S 557, CIVIL RIGHTS RESTORATION ACT, TO CLARIFY THAT NO PART OF THE LEGISLATION REQUIRES ANY INDIVIDUAL, PROGRAM, OR INSTITUTION TO PAY FOR OR PERFORM AN ABORTION.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987
Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues — 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): Exempting institutions from paying or performing abortions restricts access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Narrow protections”
model(0.90): Exempting abortion services narrows the scope of civil rights coverage.
Tagged by: policy-area:Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (56)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (41)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard C. Shelby
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (3)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
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