House Roll Call 37, 97th Congress · May 13, 1981

TO AMEND H.R. 3512 BY PROHIBITING THE USE OF FUNDS TO PAY FOR AN ABORTION OR THE ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES IN CONNECTION WITH ANY FEDERAL EMPLOYEE HEALTH PLAN WHICH PROVIDES ANY BENEFITS OR COVERAGE FOR ABORTIONS UNDER SUCH NEGOTIATED PLAN AFTER THE LAST DAY OF CONTRACTS CURRENTLY IN FORCE. (MOTION AGREED TO)

242 yea · 155 nay30 not voting or present

Democrat92 yea · 123 nay

Republican150 yea · 32 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3512 ↗

Supplemental Appropriations and Recission Act, 1981

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): Prohibits funding for abortion benefits in federal health plans.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion,abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Social policy rider where fiscal impact is incidental.
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 (243)

Nay (157)

Not voting or present (30)

Robin Leo Beard Jr.Did not vote
Richard Walker BollingDid not vote
Clarence J. Brown Jr.Did not vote
John Lowell BurtonDid not vote
Barber Benjamin Conable Jr.Did not vote
William Ross CotterDid not vote
George William Crockett Jr.Did not vote
Huey Joel DeckardDid not vote
Thomas Joseph DowneyDid not vote
Mervyn Malcolm DymallyDid not vote
Robert William EdgarDid not vote
John Neal ErlenbornDid not vote
Billy Lee EvansDid not vote
James V. HansenDid not vote
Thomas Forbes HartnettDid not vote
Andrew Poysell IrelandDid not vote
John LeBoutillierDid not vote
James Albon MattoxDid not vote
Donald Jerome MitchellDid not vote
James Leo NelliganDid not vote
William Neff PatmanDid not vote
Donald James PeaseDid not vote
James Henry QuillenDid not vote
Nick J. Rahall IIDid not vote
Pat RobertsDid not vote
Robert A. RoeDid not vote
Benjamin Stanley RosenthalDid not vote
Fernand Joseph St. GermainDid not vote
William J. TauzinDid not vote
Henry A. WaxmanDid not vote

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