Senate Roll Call 408, 96th Congress · November 15, 1979
TO AMEND MAGNUSON AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 440, CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS, BY PROHIBITING FEDERAL FUNDING OF ABORTIONS EXCEPT WHERE THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER IS THREATENED. (SEE RC (CONTINUED) 410) (MOTION FAILED)
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(0.95): Prohibiting federal funding for abortions restricts access to abortion services.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) An abortion funding rider is a policy restriction on an appropriations bill, not a fiscal debate.
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)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Frank Forrester Church
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- 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
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Richard Bernard Stone
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Milton Ruben Young
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (49)
- Max Baucus
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Gary Warren Hart
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Donald Wilbur Stewart
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
Not voting or present (7)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.Did not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- George Stanley McGovernDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- Richard Schultz SchweikerDid not vote
- Herman Eugene TalmadgeDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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