Senate Roll Call 1027, 95th Congress · September 22, 1978
TO AGREE TO A COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO H.R. 12931 THAT STRIKES LANGUAGE PROHIBITING THE USE OF PEACE CORPS FUNDS FOR ABORTION.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1979
Policy area: International Affairs — 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(0.95): Striking an abortion funding prohibition protects and expands abortion access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (31)
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (32)
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Frank Forrester Church
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- John Melcher
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (37)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Maryon Pittman AllenDid not vote
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Edward William Brooke IIIDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Quentin Northrup BurdickDid not vote
- Clifford Philip CaseDid not vote
- Carl Thomas CurtisDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- William Dodd HathawayDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Jesse HelmsDid not vote
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.Did not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Claiborne de Borda PellDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- Ted F. StevensDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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