Senate Roll Call 975, 93rd Congress · September 17, 1974
TO TABLE AN AMENDMENT TO H.R. 15580 BARRING THE USE OF FUNDS TO PAY FOR OR ENCOURAGE PERFORMANCE OF ABORTIONS EXCEPT WHEN NECESSARY TO SAVE THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1975
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 & ContraceptionA yea counts toward “Expand access”
model(0.90): Tabling an amendment that restricts abortion funding prevents the restriction, protecting access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) An abortion funding rider is a policy fight where fiscal impact is incidental.
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)
- James George Abourezk
- George David Aiken
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Frank Edward Moss
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr.
- William Lloyd Scott
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- William Stuart Symington
- Robert Taft Jr.
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (52)
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- John Glenn Beall Jr.
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Wallace Foster Bennett
- Alan Harvey Bible
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Emerson Brock III
- James Lane Buckley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Frank Forrester Church
- Norris H. Cotton
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Harold Everett Hughes
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Michael Joseph Mansfield
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Gale William McGee
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- John Orlando Pastore
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Milton Ruben Young
Not voting or present (11)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Marlow Webster CookDid not vote
- Peter Hoyt DominickDid not vote
- James William FulbrightDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
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