Senate Roll Call 610, 95th Congress · November 3, 1977
THAT THE SENATE CONCUR IN AN AMENDMENT TO THE HOUSE AMENDMENT (SEE RC 583) TO SENATE AMENDMENT #82 (SEE RC 337) TO H.R. 7555, THE BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS TO THE DEPARTMENTS OF LABOR, AND OF HEALTH, EDUCATION AND WELFARE FOR FISCAL YEAR 1978. THE BILL AS MODIFIED BY THE MAGNUSON AMENDMENT PROVIDES THAT THE AUTHORIZED FUNDS MAY BE USED FOR MEDICAL PROCEDURES NECESSARY FOR THE TREATMENT OF VICTIMS OF RAPE AND INCEST, AND FOR ABORTIONS IN CASES WHERE THE MOTHER'S LIFE WOULD BE ENDANGERED BY THE PREGNANCY "OR" AND LONG-LASTING PHYSICAL HEALTH DAMAGE TO THE MOTHER WOULD RESULT IF THE PREGNANCY 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 “Expand access”
model(0.85): Concurring in the amendment expands exceptions allowing federal funding for abortions.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Abortion policy riders on appropriations bills are social policy fights, unclear on fiscal spending axis.
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 (62)
- 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
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- 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.
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- 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
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- 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.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (30)
- James Browning Allen
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Joseph R. Biden 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
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- John Little McClellanDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- James Blackwood PearsonDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
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