House Roll Call 1521, 95th Congress · October 14, 1978

TO CONCUR IN THE MODIFIED SENATE AMENDMENT TO THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 12929, THE BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR AND OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1979. THE MODIFIED SENATE AMENDMENT PROHIBITS THE USE OF THESE FUNDS FOR ABORTIONS EXCEPT WHEN THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER WOULD BE ENDANGERED IF THE FETUS WERE CARRIED TO TERM, OR WHEN SEVERE AND LONG-LASTING PHYSICAL HEALTH DAMAGE WOULD OCCUR TO THE MOTHER IF THE PREGNANCY WERE COMPLETED, OR WHEN THE MOTHER IS A VICTIM OF RAPE OR INCEST AND HAS PROMPTLY REPORTED THE INCIDENT TO A LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. (THIS AMENDMENT WAS PREVIOUSLY REJECTED BY THE HOUSE ON OCT. 12, 1978. SEE RC 895.)

198 yea · 195 nay35 not voting or present

Democrat166 yea · 92 nay

Republican32 yea · 102 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 “Restrict access”
model(0.85): Restricting federal funding for abortion services limits abortion access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Policy rider on abortion funding 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 (200)

Nay (195)

Not voting or present (35)

Joseph Scofield AmmermanDid not vote
Douglas Earl ApplegateDid not vote
William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
Robert Edward BadhamDid not vote
Mario BiaggiDid not vote
J. Herbert BurkeDid not vote
Yvonne Brathwaite BurkeDid not vote
Charles Joseph CarneyDid not vote
William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
John Conyers, Jr.Did not vote
William Louis DickinsonDid not vote
John Neal ErlenbornDid not vote
Frank Edward EvansDid not vote
John James Flynt Jr.Did not vote
Louis Frey Jr.Did not vote
Robert GarciaDid not vote
Michael Joseph HarringtonDid not vote
Richard Howard Ichord IIDid not vote
Robert Louis LeggettDid not vote
William LehmanDid not vote
Manuel Luján Jr.Did not vote
Ronald Charles MarleneeDid not vote
John Joseph McFallDid not vote
Helen Stevenson MeynerDid not vote
John Emerson MossDid not vote
Shirley Neil PettisDid not vote
Albert Harold QuieDid not vote
Eldon Dean RuddDid not vote
George Edward ShipleyDid not vote
Joe SkubitzDid not vote
Samuel Studdiford StrattonDid not vote
Olin Earl TeagueDid not vote
Jerome Bob TraxlerDid not vote
Charles Herbert WilsonDid not vote
John Andrew YoungDid not vote

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