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House Roll Call 1033, 104th Congress · May 14, 1996

H.R.3230 BY SPENCE (R-SC) -- NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1997 RESERVE FORCES REVITALIZATION ACT OF 1996 SIKES ACT IMPROVEMENT AMENDMENTS OF 1996 (HOUSE REJECTED THE DELAURO AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO REVERSE ACTIONS TAKEN LAST YEAR WHICH PROHIBITED PRIVATELY FUNDED ABORTIONS FOR MILITARY WOMEN AND DEPENDENTS AT OVERSEAS MILITARY HOSPITALS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

192 yea · 225 nayFailed16 not voting or present
Democrat152 yea · 36 nay
Republican39 yea · 189 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3230 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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): Reverses prohibition on privately funded abortions at overseas military hospitals.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Abortion policy rider on a defense bill does not align with military expansion or restraint.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

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

Yea (192)

Nay (225)

Not voting or present (16)

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