Senate Roll Call 388, 96th Congress · November 6, 1979
TO AMEND H.R. 5359, DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS, BY PROVIDING THAT NO FUNDS BE APPROPRIATED FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF ABORTIONS EXCEPT WHERE THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER WOULD BE ENDANGERED. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1980
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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): Restricting the use of funds for abortions narrows access to abortion services.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) An abortion funding rider on a defense bill is social policy, not military expansion or restraint.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) An abortion policy rider on an appropriations bill is a policy fight where spending is 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 (38)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (47)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (15)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- John Anthony DurkinDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Paul S. SarbanesDid not vote
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson IIIDid not vote
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