Senate Roll Call 897, 104th Congress · September 11, 1996
A bill making appropriations for the Treasury Department, the United States Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and certain Independent Agencies, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes. — (SENATE TABLED THE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT BEGINNING ON PAGE 80, LINE 20, THROUGH PAGE 81, LINE 4, STRIKING LANGUAGE THAT PROHIBITS FUNDS TO BE MADE AVAILABLE TO PAY FOR AN ABORTION, OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES IN CONNECTION WITH ANY HEALTH PLAN UNDER THE FEDERAL EMPLOYEES' HEALTH BENEFIT PROGRAM WHICH PROVIDES ANY BENEFITS OR COVERAGE FOR ABORTIONS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1997
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(0.90): Tabling the amendment that removed an abortion ban keeps restrictions on abortion coverage in place.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion,abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) The vote concerns abortion restrictions in insurance plans, making spending incidental.
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 (53)
- 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
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Sheila Frahm
- 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.
- 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
- Richard J. Santorum
- Richard C. Shelby
- Robert Smith
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (45)
- 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
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- 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
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (2)
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
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