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House Roll Call 550, 96th Congress · October 30, 1979

TO CONCUR WITH SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 137 TO H.R. 4389, WITH AN AMENDMENT PROHIBITING FEDERAL FUNDING OF ABORTION EXCEPT WHERE THE MOTHER'S LIFE WOULD BE ENDANGERED IF THE FETUS WAS CARRIED TO TERM, OR VICTIMS OF REPORTED RAPE OR INCEST. THE SENATE AMENDMENT PERMITS FERDERAL FUNDING IN CASES WHERE "MEDICALLY NECESSARY." (MOTION FAILED)

187 yea · 219 nay13 not voting or present
Democrat160 yea · 98 nay
Republican32 yea · 127 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(0.95): Prohibiting federal funds for abortion except under very limited circumstances restricts access to reproductive care.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortion

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) An abortion funding rider is a policy fight, so its direction on a fiscal axis is unclear.

    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 (194)

Nay (226)

Not voting or present (13)

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