Senate Roll Call 355, 96th Congress · October 12, 1979
TO AGREE TO THE HOUSE ABORTION AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 412, CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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): Agreeing to the House amendment restricts abortion funding access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Abortion funding rider is a policy fight, making spending impact 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 (44)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- J. James Exon
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- George Stanley McGovern
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (43)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Richard Bernard Stone
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (13)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- John Chester CulverDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- Wendell Hampton FordDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Robert Burren MorganDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Abraham Alexander RibicoffDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
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