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Senate Roll Call 652, 100th Congress · July 7, 1988

TO TABLE THE EXON,, NE AMENDMENT TO HR 4776, FISCAL 1989 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS, TO PREVENT THE USE OF FUNDS FOR ABORTIONS, EXCEPT WHERE THE MOTHER'S LIFE IS ENDANGERED BY THE PREGNANCY OR IN REPORTED CASES OF INCEST AND RAPE.

49 yea · 37 nay13 not voting or present
Democrat35 yea · 11 nay
Republican15 yea · 26 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 “Expand access”

    model(0.95): Tabling an amendment restricting abortion funding protects abortion access.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Abortion funding restrictions are policy fights where fiscal 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 (50)

Nay (37)

Not voting or present (13)

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