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House Roll Call 539, 102nd Congress · May 12, 1992

H.R.2039 BY FRANK, BARNEY (D-MA) -- LEGAL SERVICES REAUTHORIZATION ACT OF 1992 (HOUSE REJECTED THE GEKAS EN BLOC AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO PROHIBIT RECIPIENT AGENCIES FROM USING ANY FEDERAL, PUBLIC, PRIVATE, OR IOLTA FUNDS FOR ANY LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING PERTAINING TO ABORTION, OR ANY LOBBYING ACTIVITY TO PASS OR DEFEAT LEGISLATION OR REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO ABORTION.)

Question before the chamber: ON AGEEING TO THE AMENDMENTS

188 yea · 216 nayFailed30 not voting or present
Democrat60 yea · 177 nay
Republican127 yea · 37 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2039 ↗

Legal Services Reauthorization Act of 1992

Policy area: Law — 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(0.90): Prohibiting funding for abortion-related litigation and lobbying restricts access to reproductive rights.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortion

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

Who voted which way

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

Yea (188)

Nay (216)

Not voting or present (30)

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