Senate Roll Call 588, 98th Congress · August 8, 1984
TO TABLE THE HELMS AMENDMENT TO H.R. 6040. THE HELMS AMENDMENT EXPRESSES THE SENSE OF CONGRESS THAT THE PRESIDENT IS TO BE COMMENDED FOR HIS OUTSTANDING LEADERSHIP IN CONDEMNING ABORTION AT HOME AND ABROAD AS A GRAVE INJUSTICE AGAINST UNBORN HUMAN BEINGS, AND THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO CONTINUE TO MODIFY THE DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICIES OF THE UNITED STATES TO PROTECT UNBORN HUMAN BEINGS FROM THE VIOLENCE OF ABORTION. (MOTION FAILED) (CONTINUED) SEE NOTE(S) 31
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Second Supplemental 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 “Expand access”
model(0.90): Tabling an anti-abortion resolution protects access by defeating a anti-abortion proposal.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (1.00) The resolution concerns abortion policy, not spending or budget policy.
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 (43)
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- 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
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Nay (52)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- 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
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- 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
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (5)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Alfonse Marcello D’AmatoDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Carl LevinDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
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