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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.

48 yea · 45 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat37 yea · 10 nay
Republican11 yea · 35 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4783

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)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (7)

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