Senate Roll Call 235, 103rd Congress · August 3, 1993
To allow employees with health plans under the Federal Employees Health Benefit program to purchase special riders that cover abortions. — H.R.2403 BY HOYER (D-MD) -- TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE, AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1994 TREASURY DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1994 POSTAL SERVICE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1994 EXECUTIVE OFFICE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1994 INDEPENDENT AGENCIES APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1994 REVENUE FORGONE REFORM ACT (PUB. L. 103-123, APPROVED 10/28/93) (SENATE FAILED TO HOLD NICKLES AMENDMENT NO. 749 TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ON PAGE 31, LINE 20 TO ALLOW EMPLOYEES WITH HEALTH PLANS UNDER THE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES HEALTH BENEFIT PROGRAM TO PURCHASE SPECIAL RIDERS THAT COVER ABORTIONS, AS BEING GERMANE TO THE HOUSE-PASSED BILL.)
Question before the chamber: Whether the Amendment is Germane
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1994
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 & ContraceptionDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Germaneness rulings are procedural votes.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Germaneness rulings are procedural votes.
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)
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Robert Smith
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Harris Wofford
Nay (51)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Harlan Mathews
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (1)
- Judd A. GreggDid not vote
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