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House Roll Call 1087, 95th Congress · June 13, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 12929 BY STRIKING LANGUAGE THAT PROHIBITS USE OF THE AUTHORIZED FUNDS FOR ABORTIONS, EXCEPT WHERE THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER WOULD BE ENDANGERED IF THE FETUS WERE CARRIED TO TERM.

122 yea · 287 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat107 yea · 164 nay
Republican19 yea · 127 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12929 ↗

Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations Act, 1979

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(0.95): Striking the abortion funding prohibition protects abortion access.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Abortion policy rider is not a direct fiscal axis vote.

    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 (128)

Nay (292)

Not voting or present (14)

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