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House Roll Call 1007, 105th Congress · August 4, 1998

(HOUSE REJECTED THE DEGETTE AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO STRIKE SECTION 103 THAT PROHIBITS ANY FUNDS TO BE USED TO PAY FOR AN ABORTION EXCEPT WHERE THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER IS ENDANGERED, OR IN THE CASE OF RAPE.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

148 yea · 271 nayFailed15 not voting or present
Democrat133 yea · 61 nay
Republican14 yea · 210 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4276 ↗

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999

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 “Expand access”

    model(0.95): Striking a ban on funding for abortion protects access to reproductive services.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortion

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Policy rider on abortion funding, money is incidental on fiscal axis.

    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 (148)

Nay (271)

Not voting or present (15)

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