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Senate Roll Call 167, 105th Congress · July 10, 1997

To repeal the restriction on use of Department of Defense facilities for abortions. — (SENATE REJECTED MURRAY AMENDMENT NO. 593, TO REPEAL THE RESTRICTION ON USE OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FACILITIES FOR ABORTIONS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

48 yea · 51 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 3 nay
Republican5 yea · 48 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 936 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998

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 a restriction on using DOD facilities for abortions expands access to abortion services.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Repealing restrictions on DOD facility abortion access concerns healthcare policy, not overall military power or expansion.

    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 (48)

Nay (51)

Not voting or present (1)

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