Senate Roll Call 644, 99th Congress · September 16, 1986
TO ADOPT AN APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE AMENDMENT TO HR 5175, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA APPROPRIATIONS BILL. THE AMENDMENT WOULD REPLACE LANGUAGE IN THE BILL THAT PROHIBITED ANY FEDERAL OR DISTRICT FUNDS FROM BEING USED FOR ABORTIONS, EXCEPT IN CASES ENDANGERING THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER WITH LANGUAGE WHICH WOULD PROHIBIT FEDERAL FUNDS FROM BEING SPENT ON ABORTIONS, EXCEPT WHEN THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER WOULD BE ENDANGERED IF THE FETUS WERE CARRIED TO TERM, OR IN CASES OF RAPE AND INCEST.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
District of Columbia Appropriation Act, 1987
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): Expanding abortion coverage exceptions protects access compared to a stricter ban.
Tagged by: keyword:abortions
Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Abortion funding restrictions in an appropriations bill represent policy fights, not fiscal axis moves.
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 (48)
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- 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
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- 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
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Nay (42)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- James Thomas Broyhill
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- 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
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (10)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Thomas Francis EagletonDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- T. Slade GortonDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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