Senate Roll Call 1053, 95th Congress · September 27, 1978
TO AMEND H.R. 12929 BY PROHIBITING THE USE OF THESE FUNDS FOR ABORTIONS, EXCEPT WHERE THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER WOULD BE ENDANGERED IF THE FETUS WERE CARRIED TO TERM.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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(0.95): Prohibiting the use of funds for abortions restricts abortion access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) An abortion funding prohibition rider is a policy fight where budget 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 (32)
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- 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
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (55)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (13)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Maryon Pittman AllenDid not vote
- Wendell Richard AndersonDid not vote
- James Oliver EastlandDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- William Dodd HathawayDid not vote
- Jesse HelmsDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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