Senate Roll Call 190, 105th Congress · July 22, 1997
To prohibit the use of funds the pay for an abortion or to pay for the administrative expenses in connection with certain health plans that provide coverage for abortions — (SENATE AGREED TO THE DEWINE AMENDMENT NO. 936, TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF FUNDS TO PAY FOR AN ABORTION OR PAY FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES IN CONNECTION WITH CERTAIN HEALTH PLANS THAT PROVIDE COVERAGE FOR ABORTIONS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Treasury and General Government Appropriations Act, 1998
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.
- Abortion & ContraceptionA yea counts toward “Restrict access”
model(0.95): Prohibiting federal health plans from covering abortion restricts abortion access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion,abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) An abortion funding rider is a social policy fight 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 (54)
- Spencer Abraham
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Conrad Burns
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Michael B. Enzi
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Tim Hutchinson
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Harry Reid
- Pat Roberts
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Robert Smith
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (45)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Susan M. Collins
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Jack Reed
- Charles S. Robb
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Robert Torricelli
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (1)
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
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