Senate Roll Call 580, 105th Congress · September 22, 1998
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit taking minors across State lines to avoid laws requiring the involvement of parents in abortion decisions. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE FAILED TO AGREE TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON THE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE TO S. 1645, TO AMEND TITLE 18, UNITED STATES CODE, TO PROHIBIT TAKING MINORS ACROSS STATE LINES TO AVOID LAWS REQUIRING THE INVOLVEMENT OF PARENTS IN ABORTION DECISIONS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Child Custody Protection Act
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): Cloture advances legislation restricting minors access to out-of-state abortions.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”
model(0.90): Cloture advances bill creating criminal penalties for transporting minors for 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 (54)
- Spencer Abraham
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- 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
- Ernest F. Hollings
- 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
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (45)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- 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
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Torricelli
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (1)
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
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