Senate Roll Call 747, 100th Congress · September 13, 1988
TO RECONSIDER THE WEICKER, CT MOTION TO INSIST THAT THE SENATE RECONSIDER AN AMENDMENT TO PERMIT USE OF MEDICAID FUNDS FOR ABORTIONS IN THE CASE OF PREGNANCY FROM RAPE OR INCEST. APPROPRIATIONS, TO PERMIT THE USE OF MEDICAID MONEY FOR ABORTIONS IN THE CASE OF PREGNANCY FROM RAPE OR INCEST.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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.
- Health CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”
model(0.85): Permitting Medicaid funds for abortions expands healthcare coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:medicaid
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Abortion & ContraceptionA yea counts toward “Expand access”
model(0.90): Permitting Medicaid funding for abortions protects reproductive access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Abortion coverage in Medicaid is a social policy fight 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)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John B. Breaux
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Terry Sanford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Nay (45)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (5)
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
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