House Roll Call 918, 105th Congress · July 16, 1998

(HOUSE REJECTED THE SMITH OF NEW JERSEY AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO PROHIBIT ANY FUNDS TO BE USED TO REQUIRE ANY CONTRACT TO INCLUDE A TERM FOR COVERAGE OF ABORTIFACIENTS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

198 yea · 222 nayFailed14 not voting or present

Democrat25 yea · 169 nay

Republican173 yea · 52 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4104 ↗

Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 1999

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.

Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) This is a policy fight over abortifacient coverage, where fiscal effects are incidental.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

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

Yea (198)

Nay (222)

Not voting or present (14)

Eva ClaytonDid not vote
Bob FilnerDid not vote
Harold E. Ford Jr.Did not vote
Henry Barbosa GonzálezDid not vote
Rick HillDid not vote
Christopher JohnDid not vote
Barbara Bailey KennellyDid not vote
John LewisDid not vote
Joseph Michael McDadeDid not vote
David M. McIntoshDid not vote
Michael R. McNultyDid not vote
Solomon P. OrtizDid not vote
Michael ParkerDid not vote
Lucille Roybal-AllardDid not vote

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