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House Roll Call 596, 95th Congress · October 12, 1977

TO CONCUR IN SENATE AMENDMENT #82 (SEE RC 594) AS MODIFIED BY AN AMENDMENT THAT ALLOWS USE OF THE APPROPRIATED FUNDS FOR ABORTIONS WHERE THE MOTHER'S LIFE WOULD BE ENDANGERED BY THE PREGNANCY, AND FOR CERTAIN "MEDICAL PROCEDURES" PERFORMED AS PROMPT TREATMENT FOR VICTIMS OF RAPE AND INCEST WHOSE PREGNANCY HAS NOT YET BEEN ESTABLISHED.

263 yea · 142 nay25 not voting or present
Democrat154 yea · 117 nay
Republican110 yea · 26 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 “Expand access”

    model(0.85): Concurring with exceptions for rape and incest expands abortion funding access relative to life-only restrictions.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Abortion policy riders are policy fights incidental to fiscal spending expansion or restraint.

    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 (265)

Nay (144)

Not voting or present (25)

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