Senate Roll Call 380, 93rd Congress · September 11, 1973
TO AMEND SEN. BUCKLEY'S AMENDMENT TO H.R. 7724, PROVIDING FOR A BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM AND ASSURING MAXIMUM PROTECTION TO HUMAN SUBJECTS INVOLVED IN SUCH RESEARCH. THE BUCKLEY AMENDMENT PROVIDES THAT RESEARCH CANNOT BE CONDUCTED OR SUPPORTED UNDER THIS BILL ON A LIVING HUMAN FETUS OR INFANT WHICH HAS BEEN DELIVERED BY AN INDUCED ABORTION. THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT THERETO BARS THE USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTATION IN THE FIELD OF ABORTION BEFORE CERTIFICATION OF INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARDS HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED AND NATIONAL COMMISSION DEVELOPS POLICIES FOR SUCH RESEARCH.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
National Research Act
Policy area: Health — 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.
- Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Biomedical research regulations do not affect health care coverage.
Tagged by: policy-area:Health
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Abortion & ContraceptionDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.75) Amending restrictions on fetal research does not clearly align with standard abortion access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (53)
- James George Abourezk
- George David Aiken
- Birch Evans Bayh
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Gale William McGee
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- William Bart Saxbe
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- William Stuart Symington
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Varick Tunney
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (35)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Wallace Foster Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Marlow Webster Cook
- Norris H. Cotton
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Harold Everett Hughes
- John Little McClellan
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
Not voting or present (12)
- Alan Harvey BibleDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Peter Hoyt DominickDid not vote
- James William FulbrightDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Frank Edward MossDid not vote
- Jennings RandolphDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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