Senate Roll Call 215, 105th Congress · September 4, 1997
To prohibit the use of funds for research that utilizes human fetal tissue, cells, or organs that are obtained from a living or dead embryo or fetus during or after an induced abortion. — (SENATE REJECTED THE COATS AMENDMENT NO. 1077, TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF FUNDS FOR RESEARCH THAT UTILIZES HUMAN FETAL TISSUE, CELLS, OR ORGANS THAT ARE OBTAINED FROM A LIVING OR DEAD EMBRYO OR FETUS DURING OR AFTER AN INDUCED ABORTION. .)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies 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 funding for research utilizing fetal tissue from induced abortions restricts abortion access/rights.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion,fetal
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) A funding rider restricting fetal tissue research is a policy fight, not a fiscal policy decision.
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 (38)
- Spencer Abraham
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Conrad Burns
- Daniel Coats
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- Michael B. Enzi
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- 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
- Don Nickles
- Pat Roberts
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Robert Smith
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
Nay (60)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- 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
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Robert Torricelli
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (2)
- John Hubbard ChafeeDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
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