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House Roll Call 799, 105th Congress · May 20, 1998

(HOUSE REJECTED THE LOWEY AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO REPEAL PROVISIONS OF CURRENT LAW THAT PROHIBIT PRIVATELY FUNDED ABORTIONS FOR FEMALE MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES AND DEPENDENTS AT DOD FACILITIES OVERSEAS. .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

190 yea · 232 nayFailed10 not voting or present
Democrat158 yea · 37 nay
Republican31 yea · 195 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3616 ↗

Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999

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): Repealing the ban on privately funded abortions at DOD facilities protects and expands abortion access.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Abortion policy at military facilities concerns reproductive rights, not military expansion or restraint.

    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 (190)

Nay (232)

Not voting or present (10)

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