Senate Roll Call 474, 105th Congress · June 25, 1998
To repeal the restiction on use of Department of Defense facilities for abortions. — (SENATE REJECTED MURRAY AMENDMENT NO. 2794, TO REPEAL THE RESTRICTION ON THE USE OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FACILITIES FOR ABORTIONS. .)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999
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(0.90): Repealing restrictions on military facility abortions increases access to reproductive care.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Abortion policy in military facilities is a reproductive rights issue, not military 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 (44)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- T. Slade Gorton
- 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
- Ted F. Stevens
- Robert Torricelli
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Nay (49)
- Spencer Abraham
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- Michael B. Enzi
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- William H. Frist
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- 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
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Robert Smith
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (7)
- Daniel K. AkakaDid not vote
- Max BaucusDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Tim HutchinsonDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- Arlen SpecterDid not vote
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