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House Roll Call 215, 105th Congress · June 19, 1997

(HOUSE REJECTED THE HARMON AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO PERMIT ABORTIONS AT DEFENSE FACILITIES OVERSEAS FOR FEMALE MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND DEPENDENTS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

196 yea · 224 nayFailed14 not voting or present
Democrat160 yea · 34 nay
Republican35 yea · 190 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1119 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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): Permitting abortion services at overseas military facilities protects and expands reproductive healthcare access.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Abortion access policy at military facilities does not expand or restrain military war powers.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (196)

Nay (224)

Not voting or present (14)

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