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House Roll Call 354, 105th Congress · September 4, 1997

(HOUSE REJECTED THE PAUL AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO PROHIBIT ANY FUNDING FOR POPULATION CONTROL, FAMILY PLANNING ACTIVITIES, OR ABORTION PROCEDURES. .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

147 yea · 278 nayFailed8 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 189 nay
Republican133 yea · 88 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2159

Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1998

Policy area: International Affairs — 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): A yes vote prohibits funding for family planning and abortion procedures.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortion,family planning

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

Who voted which way

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

Yea (147)

Nay (278)

Not voting or present (8)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.