House Roll Call 270, 96th Congress · June 27, 1979

TO AMEND H.R. 4389 BY SUBSTITUTING THE ANTI-ABORTION LANGUAGE IN CURRENT LAW FOR THE LANGUAGE IN THE BILL. (MOTION FAILED)

180 yea · 241 nay13 not voting or present

Democrat148 yea · 110 nay

Republican30 yea · 130 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4389 ↗

Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriations Act, 1980

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(0.90): Substituting anti-abortion language restricts abortion access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) An abortion policy rider does not move directly along a 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 (180)

Nay (241)

Not voting or present (13)

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