Senate Roll Call 635, 95th Congress · November 29, 1977
TO MODIFY THE HOUSE AMENDMENT (SEE RC 583) TO SENATE AMENDMENT #82 (SEE RC 337) TO H.R. 7555. THE BROOKE AMENDMENT AUTHORIZES THE USE OF FEDERAL FUNDS FOR ABORTIONS IF THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER WOULD BE ENDANGERED BY THE PREGNANCY, IF SEVERE AND LONG-LASTING PHYSICAL HEALTH DAMAGE WOULD RESULT TO THE MOTHER, OR IF THE MOTHER IS A VICTIM OF RAPE OR INCEST AND HAS REPORTED THE INCIDENT TO THE PROPER AUTHORITIES.
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): Authorizing federal funds for abortions in broader circumstances protects access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Policy rider on abortion funding; primary axis is reproductive rights, fiscal 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 (52)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- 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
- John Chester Culver
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Gary Warren Hart
- William Dodd Hathaway
- 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
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Nay (24)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (23)
- James Browning AllenDid not vote
- Dewey Follett BartlettDid not vote
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Carl Thomas CurtisDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Robert Paul GriffinDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- Edmund Sixtus MuskieDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
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