Senate Roll Call 339, 98th Congress · November 10, 1983
TO AMEND H. J. RES. 413 TO STRIKE THE FUNDING LANGUAGE AS PROVIDED FOR IN H.R. 4139 (THE TREASURY, POSTAL SERVICE AND GENERAL GOVERNMENT APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 1984), AS PASSED THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON OCTOBER 27, 1983. THIS LANGUAGE RELATED TO USING FEDERAL INSURANCE TO PAY FOR ABORTIONS. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 23
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1984
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(0.90): Striking language permitting insurance coverage for abortions restricts abortion access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Voting on abortion insurance coverage language is a social policy vote, not fiscal strategy.
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 (44)
- 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
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- T. Slade Gorton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- 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
- Charles Harting Percy
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (45)
- 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
- 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.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- 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 (11)
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
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