Senate Roll Call 336, 98th Congress · November 9, 1983
TO AFFIRM THE RULING OF THE CHAIR IN SUSTAINING A POINT OF ORDER AGAINST THE DENTON AMENDMENT TO S.J.RES. 194, CONTINUING APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL 1984, AS BEING LEGISLATION ON AN APPROPRIATIONS BILL. THE DENTON AMENDMENT PROHIBITS THE USE OF FUNDS TO MAKE PAYMENTS RELATING TO ANY ABORTION. (RULING REJECTED)
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 “Expand access”
model(0.90): Affirming a point of order against an anti-abortion amendment blocks abortion restrictions.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Procedural ruling on an abortion rider is not a direct vote on overall spending.
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 (49)
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (48)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- George John Mitchell
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (3)
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
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