House Roll Call 1344, 95th Congress · September 6, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 12432, THE BILL AUTHORIZING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS FOR AN ADDITIONAL FIVE YEARS, BY PROHIBITING THE COMMISSION FROM STUDYING AND APPRAISING ABORTION POLICIES AND ABORTION LAWS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT OR OF ANY OTHER GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY.

234 yea · 131 nay61 not voting or present

Democrat128 yea · 119 nay

Republican107 yea · 14 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12432 ↗

Civil Rights Commission Act

Policy area: Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues — 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): Restricts government study and advocacy regarding abortion access and policies.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Narrow protections”
model(0.90): Narrows the Civil Rights Commission's authority by prohibiting appraisals of abortion policies.
Tagged by: policy-area:Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Policy rider prohibiting abortion studies; fiscal impact is incidental.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
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 (236)

Nay (135)

Not voting or present (61)

James AbdnorDid not vote
William Vollie Alexander Jr.Did not vote
Joseph Scofield AmmermanDid not vote
William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
Anthony Charles BeilensonDid not vote
Tom BevillDid not vote
Don Leroy BonkerDid not vote
James Thomas BroyhillDid not vote
John Hall Buchanan Jr.Did not vote
J. Herbert BurkeDid not vote
Goodloe Edgar ByronDid not vote
William Venroe Chappell Jr.Did not vote
Delwin Morgan ClawsonDid not vote
Thad CochranDid not vote
William Louis DickinsonDid not vote
Robert Kenneth DornanDid not vote
Robert Blackford DuncanDid not vote
Ronnie Gene FlippoDid not vote
Daniel John FloodDid not vote
Walter FlowersDid not vote
John James Flynt Jr.Did not vote
Donald MacKay FraserDid not vote
Louis Frey Jr.Did not vote
Don FuquaDid not vote
Robert GarciaDid not vote
Sam Melville GibbonsDid not vote
George Vernon HansenDid not vote
Michael Joseph HarringtonDid not vote
William Howard HarshaDid not vote
Thomas Jerald HuckabyDid not vote
James Paul JohnsonDid not vote
John J. LaFalceDid not vote
William LehmanDid not vote
Marilyn Laird LloydDid not vote
Edward Rell MadiganDid not vote
Dale MilfordDid not vote
George MillerDid not vote
Edward Worthington PattisonDid not vote
Shirley Neil PettisDid not vote
William Robert PoageDid not vote
Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
Albert Harold QuieDid not vote
James Henry QuillenDid not vote
Frederick William RichmondDid not vote
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr.Did not vote
Daniel David RostenkowskiDid not vote
Philip Edward RuppeDid not vote
George Edward ShipleyDid not vote
Bernice Frederic SiskDid not vote
Gladys Noon SpellmanDid not vote
Robert StumpDid not vote
Steven Douglas SymmsDid not vote
Olin Earl TeagueDid not vote
Charles ThoneDid not vote
Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
Wes WatkinsDid not vote
Charles Edward WigginsDid not vote
Timothy E. WirthDid not vote
John Waldemar WydlerDid not vote
Don YoungDid not vote
John Andrew YoungDid not vote

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