Senate Roll Call 263, 95th Congress · June 29, 1977
TO AMEND H.R. 7555 BY ALLOWING THE USE OF FUNDS FOR PERFORMING ABORTIONS IN THOSE CASES WHERE THE MOTHER'S LIFE IS ENDANGERED, "WHERE MEDICALLY NECESSARY" OR WHERE NECESSARY AS TREATMENT FOR RAPE OR INCEST.
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 “Expand access”
model(0.95): Allowing Medicaid funds for abortions protects and expands reproductive healthcare access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.85): Allowing federal funds to be spent on abortions expands federal spending relative to a total ban.
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 (56)
- 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
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Richard Clarence Clark
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- 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
- 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
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- 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
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (39)
- James Browning Allen
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- 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
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (5)
- James George AbourezkDid not vote
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
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