Senate Roll Call 478, 104th Congress · September 29, 1995
To protect the reproductive rights of Federal women prisoners. — (SENATE TABLED SPECTOR AMENDMENT NO. 2841, TO STRIKE THE PROHIBITION OF TAXPAYER FUNDED ABORTIONS FOR WOMEN IN FEDERAL PRISON.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Commerce and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996
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 & ContraceptionA yea counts toward “Restrict access”
model(0.95): Tabling the amendment kills a measure allowing taxpayer-funded abortions for prisoners, restricting abortion access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions,reproductive
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”
model(0.85): Tabling kills an amendment protecting prisoner reproductive rights, maintaining restrictive conditions.
Tagged by: keyword:prison
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.90): Tabling an amendment that would allow taxpayer funding for abortions prevents new federal spending.
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 (52)
- Spencer Abraham
- John Ashcroft
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Jon Kyl
- 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.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (44)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- George Hanks Brown
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- 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
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (4)
- Robert F. BennettDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Richard C. ShelbyDid not vote
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