Senate Roll Call 291, 99th Congress · November 7, 1985
TO TABLE THE HUMPHREY, NH) AMENDMENT TO HR 3067, TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF FUNDS TO PAY FOR AN ABORTION, EXCEPT WHEN THE MOTHER'S LIFE IS THREATENED.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
District of Columbia 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(0.90): Tabling an amendment prohibiting abortion funds protects access to abortion.
Tagged by: keyword:abortion
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Policy rider restricting abortion funding has incidental budget impact.
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 (55)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- 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
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Nay (42)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- 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
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
Not voting or present (3)
- Henry John Heinz IIIDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
- Edward ZorinskyDid not vote
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