Senate Roll Call 686, 100th Congress · July 27, 1988
TO TABLE THE HELMS, NC AMENDMENT TO HR 4783, FISCAL 1989 LABOR-HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES-EDUCATION APPROPRIATIONS, TO PROHIBIT FEDERAL FUNDING OF PROGRAMS THAT PROVIDE CONTRACEPTIVES, ABORTIONS, OR COUNSELING AND ASSISTANCE IN OBTAINING CONTRACEPTIVES AND ABORTIONS, AT ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1989
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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 the amendment protects access to school-based contraceptive and abortion counseling.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) This is a policy rider fight.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
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 (48)
- Max Baucus
- 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
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (45)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- 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
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- 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
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (7)
- Brockman AdamsDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Thomas A. DaschleDid not vote
- Wyche Fowler Jr.Did not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- James Terry SanfordDid not vote
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