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Senate Roll Call 779, 100th Congress · October 7, 1988

TO TABLE THE CRANSTON, CA AMENDMENT TO S 2238, TECHNICAL TAX CORRECTIONS, TO ALLOW THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA TO PAY FOR ABORTIONS IN THE CASES OF RAPE, INCEST OR DANGER TO THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER WITH FEDERAL MONIES AND MAKE NON-FEDERAL MONIES AVAILABLE TO NEEDY WOMEN FOR THE SAME.

40 yea · 43 nay15 not voting or present
Democrat13 yea · 33 nay
Republican29 yea · 10 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2238

Technical Corrections Act of 1988

Policy area: Taxation — 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): Tabling the amendment prevents public funding for abortion access.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Abortion funding policy does not move along the tax axis.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (42)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (15)

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