Senate Roll Call 563, 104th Congress · November 8, 1995
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to ban partial-birth abortions. — H.R.1833 BY CANADY (R-FL) -- PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT OF 1995 (SENATE AGREED TO A MOTION TO COMMIT THE BILL TO THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, WITH INSTRUCTIONS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1995
Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — 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(0.90): Committing the abortion ban bill to committee with instructions delays or alters restrictions, protecting access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion,abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) The specific contents of the instructions in the motion to commit are not detailed.
Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (90)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- John Ashcroft
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
Nay (7)
Not voting or present (2)
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Richard G. LugarDid not vote
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