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House Roll Call 949, 105th Congress · July 23, 1998

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act — (TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING IN FAVOR, HOUSE VOTED TO OVERRIDE THE PRESIDENT'S VETO OF H.R. 1122, TO AMEND TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE, TO BAN PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTIONS.)

Question before the chamber: Passage, Objections of the President Notwithstanding

296 yea · 132 nayPassed7 not voting or present
Democrat75 yea · 123 nay
Republican221 yea · 8 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1122 ↗

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1997

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — 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): Overriding the veto enacts a federal ban restricting access to partial-birth abortions.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortion,abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”

    model(0.95): Overriding the veto enacts criminal penalties for performing partial-birth abortions.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

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

Yea (296)

Nay (132)

Not voting or present (7)

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