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Senate Roll Call 340, 106th Congress · October 21, 1999

A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to ban partial birth abortions.

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

63 yea · 34 nayBill Passed2 not voting or present
Democrat15 yea · 30 nay
Republican48 yea · 2 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1692 ↗

Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 1999

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): Banning partial birth abortions restricts access to reproductive health procedures.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Banning partial birth abortion is a reproductive rights measure rather than a criminal justice reform.

    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 (63)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (2)

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