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Senate Roll Call 961, 94th Congress · June 28, 1976

TO TABLE THE PACKWOOD AMENDMENT TO H.R. 14232, MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND HEW FOR FISCAL YEAR 1977. THE PACKWOOD AMENDMENT STRIKES SECTION 209 BARRING FUNDS FOR USE TO PAY FOR ABORTIONS OR TO PROMOTE OR ENCOURAGE ABORTIONS.

27 yea · 55 nay15 not voting or present
Democrat15 yea · 33 nay
Republican12 yea · 23 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 14232

Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1977

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 “Restrict access”

    model(0.90): Tabling an amendment that strikes abortion restrictions preserves the ban on funding.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) An abortion funding rider is a policy dispute 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 (28)

Nay (57)

Not voting or present (15)

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