Senate Roll Call 645, 98th Congress · October 3, 1984
TO TABLE THE WEICKER AMENDMENT TO H. J. RES. 648. THE WEICKER AMENDMENT AMENDS THE LANGUAGE WHICH ALLOWS FEDERAL ABORTION FUNDING IN LIFE-THREATENING SITUATIONS ONLY, TO PERMIT THESE BENEFITS TO GO TO THE VICTIMS OF RAPE OR INCEST. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 34
54 yea · 44 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat15 yea · 31 nay
Republican39 yea · 13 nay
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(0.90): Tabling kills an expansion of federal abortion funding, restricting access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (54)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- 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
- George John Mitchell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (44)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Gary Warren Hart
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- 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.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (2)
- John Porter EastDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
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