Senate Roll Call 914, 104th Congress · September 26, 1996
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to ban partial-birth abortions. — BY CANADY (R-FL) -- PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTION BAN ACT OF 1995 (VETOED 4/10/96) (TWO-THIRDS OF THE SENATORS VOTING HAVING NOT VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, H.R. 1833, TO AMEND TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE, TO BAN PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTIONS, UPON RECONSIDERATION, WAS REJECTED, AND THE VETO OF THE PRESIDENT WAS SUSTAINED.)
Question before the chamber: On Overriding the Veto
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 “Restrict access”
model(0.95): Overriding the veto enacts a ban on an abortion procedure, restricting access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion,abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”
model(0.90): Overriding the veto enacts criminal penalties for a procedure, moving toward punitive policy.
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 (57)
- 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
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Richard C. Shelby
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (41)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- 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
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Patty Murray
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (2)
- Ben Nighthorse CampbellDid not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
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