Senate Roll Call 831, 93rd Congress · June 11, 1974
TO TABLE SEN. HELMS' AMENDMENT TO BAR THE USE OF FUNDS FOR PURPOSES OF PROVIDING ABORTION REFERRAL SERVICES OR PERFORMING ABORTIONS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act
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(0.95): Tabling kills an amendment restricting funding for abortion services, preserving access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion,abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) An abortion restriction rider on a defense bill does not move along the military policy axis.
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 (65)
- James George Abourezk
- George David Aiken
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Wallace Foster Bennett
- Alan Harvey Bible
- William Emerson Brock III
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Norris H. Cotton
- Alan Cranston
- Peter Hoyt Dominick
- James Oliver Eastland
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- 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.
- John Little McClellan
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- John Varick Tunney
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (28)
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Marlow Webster Cook
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James William Fulbright
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Harold Everett Hughes
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- James Albertus McClure
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- John Orlando Pastore
- William Proxmire
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (8)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Gale William McGeeDid not vote
- Lee Warren MetcalfDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- William Stuart SymingtonDid not vote
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.Did not vote
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