House Roll Call 1088, 95th Congress · June 13, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 12929 BY STRIKING THE ABORTION PROVISION (SEE RC 443) AND REPLACING IT WITH THE EXACT COMPROMISE LANGUAGE ON ABORTION FUNDING THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE DURING THE FIRST SESSION OF THE 95TH CONGRESS (SEE RC 775, SESSION 1).

198 yea · 212 nay14 not voting or present

Democrat170 yea · 103 nay

Republican31 yea · 113 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(0.90): Replacing strict ban with compromise language protects/expands abortion access relative to strict prohibition.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion
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 (203)

Nay (217)

Not voting or present (14)

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