House Roll Call 466, 95th Congress · August 2, 1977

TO CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENT #82 TO H.R. 7555 WITH AN AMENDMENT RESTRICTING THE FEDERAL FUNDING OF ABORTIONS UNLESS A MOTHER'S LIFE WOULD BE ENDANGERED IF THE FETUS WERE CARRIED TO TERM. AMENDMENT #82 PROHIBITS THE USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR ABORTION EXCEPT WHEN THE MOTHER'S LIFE IS ENDANGERED, WHEN MEDICALLY NECESSARY, OR IN CASES OF RAPE OR INCEST.

238 yea · 182 nay6 not voting or present

Democrat126 yea · 153 nay

Republican114 yea · 31 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): Restricting Medicaid abortion funding to cases of life endangerment tightens access to abortion.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion,abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Abortion funding restrictions on an appropriations bill are social policy fights, making fiscal direction unclear.
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 (241)

Nay (186)

Not voting or present (6)

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