Senate Roll Call 652, 104th Congress · March 19, 1996
To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit governmental discrimination in the training and licensing of health professionals on the basis of the refusal to undergo or provide training in the performance of induced abortions. — (SENATE AGREED TO COATS MODIFIED AMENDMENT NO. 3513 TO AMENDMENT NO. 3466, TO AMEND THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE ACT TO PROHIBIT GOVERNMENTAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE TRAINING AND LICENSING OF HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ON THE BASIS OF THE REFUSAL TO UNDERGO OR PROVIDE TRAINING IN THE PERFORMANCE OF INDUCED ABORTIONS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 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.
- Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Licensing and training conscience provisions do not expand or restrict healthcare coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:public health
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Abortion & ContraceptionA yea counts toward “Restrict access”
model(0.90): Protecting refusal to undergo abortion training restricts access to abortion services.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”
model(0.85): Prohibiting governmental discrimination against health professionals broadens conscience protections.
Tagged by: keyword:discrimination
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Prohibiting discrimination in medical licensing has no fiscal impact.
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 (63)
- Spencer Abraham
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- 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
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Jon Kyl
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (37)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- J. James Exon
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Patty Murray
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (0)
None
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