Senate Roll Call 542, 104th Congress · October 27, 1995
An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to section 105 of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 1996. — (SENATE AGREED TO THE SMITH MOTION TO INSTRUCT THE CONFEREES ON THE PART OF THE SENATE TO RECEDE TO THE HOUSE AMENDMENT RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION ON FEDERAL FUNDING FOR MEDICAID ABORTIONS EXCEPT TO SAVE THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER OR IN CASES OF RAPE OR INCEST.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Balanced Budget Reconciliation Act of 1995
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.
- Health CareA yea counts toward “Restrict coverage”
model(0.90): Voting yes restricts Medicaid coverage for abortions, restricting health coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:medicaid
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Abortion & ContraceptionA yea counts toward “Restrict access”
model(0.95): Voting yes restricts Medicaid abortion funding, limiting reproductive health access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.85): Voting yes restricts Medicaid funding for abortions, cutting 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 (56)
- Spencer Abraham
- John Ashcroft
- 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
- Michael DeWine
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- 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
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- 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
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (43)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- 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
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- 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 (0)
None
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