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Senate Roll Call 86, 113th Congress · March 23, 2013

To create a point of order against any legislation that would provide taxpayer funds to the United Nations while any member nation forces citizens or residents of that nation to undergo involuntary abortions.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

38 yea · 61 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 51 nay
Republican37 yea · 8 nay
Independent1 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 8 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2014, revising the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year 2013, and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2015 through 2023.

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 & ContraceptionDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.70) Restricting UN funding over forced abortions has conflicting implications for reproductive rights access.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.85): Creating a point of order against UN funding creates a procedural barrier to spending.

    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)

Nay (61)

Not voting or present (1)

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