Senate Roll Call 258, 95th Congress · June 29, 1977
TO AMEND H.R. 7555 BY PROHIBITING THE USE OF FUNDS FOR ABORTIONS EXCEPT IN THOSE CASES WHERE THE MOTHER'S LIFE WOULD BE ENDANGERED IF THE FETUS WERE CARRIED TO TERM.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 federal funding for abortion restricts reproductive access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Abortion funding restrictions are a social policy debate.
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 (33)
- James Browning Allen
- 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
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- 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
- John Jackson Sparkman
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (65)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- 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.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- William Lloyd Scott
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (2)
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
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