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House Roll Call 73, 105th Congress · April 10, 1997

Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997 — H.R.1003 BY HALL, RALPH (D-TX) -- ASSISTED SUICIDE FUNDING RESTRICTION ACT OF 1997 (HOUSE VOTED TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 1003, AMENDED, TO CLARIFY FEDERAL LAW WITH RESPECT TO RESTRICTING THE USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS IN SUPPORT OF ASSISTED SUICIDE.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

398 yea · 16 nayPassed18 not voting or present
Democrat179 yea · 16 nay
Republican218 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1003

Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction Act of 1997

Policy area: Health — 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.

  • Health CareA yea counts toward “Restrict coverage”

    model(0.90): Restricts federal funding and health coverage for assisted suicide.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Health

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

Who voted which way

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

Yea (398)

Nay (16)

Not voting or present (18)

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