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House Roll Call 591, 105th Congress · November 6, 1997

Forced Abortion Condemnation Act — H.R.2570 BY FOWLER (R-FL) -- FORCED ABORTION CONDEMNATION ACT (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 2570, TO CONDEMN THOSE OFFICIALS OF THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY, THE GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, AND OTHER PERSONS WHO ARE INVOLVED IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF FORCED ABORTIONS BY PREVENTING SUCH PERSONS FROM ENTERING OR REMAINING IN THE UNITED STATES.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

415 yea · 1 nayPassed17 not voting or present
Democrat191 yea · 1 nay
Republican223 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2570 ↗

Forced Abortion Condemnation Act

Policy area: Immigration — 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.

  • ImmigrationA yea counts toward “Restrictive”

    model(0.85): Bars foreign officials involved in forced abortions from entering or remaining in the United States.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Immigration

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

  • Abortion & ContraceptionDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Condemns foreign forced abortions without directly altering domestic laws governing abortion access.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortion,abortions

    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 (415)

Nay (1)

Not voting or present (17)

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