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House Roll Call 326, 95th Congress · June 17, 1977

TO AMEND H.R. 7555, THE BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, AND OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE FOR FISCAL 1978, BY PROHIBITING THE USE OF THE APPROPRIATED FUNDS TO PERFORM, ENCOURAGE OR PROMOTE ABORTIONS.

201 yea · 155 nay32 not voting or present
Democrat113 yea · 149 nay
Republican111 yea · 25 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 7555

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

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(0.95): Prohibiting federal funding for abortion restricts access to abortion services.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Abortion prohibition rider is a social policy fight on a fiscal bill.

    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 (225)

Nay (176)

Not voting or present (32)

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