Senate Roll Call 583, 95th Congress · October 27, 1977
TO PASS S. RES. 307, A RESOLUTION INSTRUCTING THE SENATE CONFEREES ON H.R. 7555, THE BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, AND OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1978, TO RECEDE FROM THE SENATE AMENDMENT TO THE HOUSE AMENDMENT TO THE SENATE AMENDMENT #82 (SEE RC 337) TO THE BILL. S. RES. 307 PROPOSES THAT THE SENATE CONCUR IN THE HOUSE AMENDMENT THAT AUTHORIZES THE USE OF HEW FUNDS FOR CERTAIN "MEDICAL PROCEDURES" TO TREAT VICTIMS OF RAPE OF INCEST AND FOR ABORTIONS WHEN THE MOTHER'S LIFE I
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
A resolution to instruct the Senate conferees on H.R. 7555.
Policy area: Congress — 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(0.90): Allowing federal funds for abortion in cases of rape, incest, or life threat protects abortion access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) The vote is a social policy rider fight on abortion access; fiscal impact is incidental.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
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
- 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
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (60)
- 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
- James Oliver Eastland
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- 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
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- 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
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (7)
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Milton Ruben YoungDid not vote
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