Senate Roll Call 255, 99th Congress · October 24, 1985
TO TABLE THE HELMS, NC) AMENDMENT TO HR 2965, A BILL MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENTS OF COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE AND THE JUDICIARY FOR FISCAL 1986, TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF FUNDS FOR THE FEDERAL PRISON SYSTEM TO BE USED FOR ABORTIONS FOR INMATES, EXCEPT WHEN THE WOMAN'S LIFE IS IN DANGER.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriation Act, 1986
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(0.95): Tabling the amendment blocks a ban on funding abortions for inmates, protecting access.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Reform-oriented”
model(0.80): Tabling a restriction on inmate healthcare access prevents imposing more punitive conditions.
Tagged by: keyword:prison
Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) An abortion rider is a policy fight 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 (46)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- 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.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (46)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- 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
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- 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
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- John Porter EastDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Mitch McConnellDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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