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Vote Data for HR4389 (96th Congress)


Date: September 24, 1979

Subject: Abortion

Description: Schweiker (R-PA) motion that the Senate recede to the House position on Medicaid-funded abortions, which allowed payment for abortions only if the life of the mother was endangered if the fetus were carried to term. The Senate language also allows funding in cases of rape or incest or when two doctors determine that continued pregnancy would result in physical damage to the mother.

Result: Motion Rejected, 33-54

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Voted in Favor:

William Armstrong (R-CO)  
David Boren (D-OK)  
Rudy Boschwitz (R-MN)  
Thad Cochran (R-MS)  
John Danforth (R-MO)  
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ)  
Pete Domenici (R-NM)  
Dave Durenberger (R-MN)  
John Durkin (D-NH)  
Thomas Eagleton (D-MO)  
James Exon (D-NE)  
Wendell Ford (D-KY)  
Jake Garn (R-UT)  
Orrin Hatch (R-UT)  
Mark Hatfield (R-OR)  
Jesse Helms (R-NC)  
Walter Huddleston (D-KY)  
Gordon Humphrey (R-NH)  
Roger Jepsen (R-IA)  
Bennett Johnston (D-LA)  
Paul Laxalt (R-NV)  
Russell Long (D-LA)  
Richard Lugar (R-IN)  
John Melcher (D-MT)  
Larry Pressler (R-SD)  
William Proxmire (D-WI)  
William Roth (R-DE)  
Richard Schweiker (R-PA)  
Richard Stone (D-FL)  
Strom Thurmond (R-SC)  
John Warner (R-VA)  
Milton Young (R-ND)  
Edward Zorinsky (D-NE)  

Voted Against:

Max Baucus (D-MT)  
Birch Bayh (D-IN)  
Henry Bellmon (R-OK)  
Lloyd Bentsen (D-TX)  
Bill Bradley (D-NJ)  
Dale Bumpers (D-AR)  
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)  
Harry Byrd, Jr. (I-VA)  
Robert Byrd (D-WV)  
Howard Cannon (D-NV)  
Lawton Chiles (D-FL)  
Frank Church (D-ID)  
William Cohen (R-ME)  
Alan Cranston (D-CA)  
John Culver (D-IA)  
John Glenn (D-OH)  
Mike Gravel (D-AK)  
Gary Hart (D-CO)  
Sam Hayakawa (R-CA)  
Howell Heflin (D-AL)  
John Heinz (R-PA)  
Ernest Hollings (D-SC)  
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)  
Henry Jackson (D-WA)  
Jacob Javits (R-NY)  
Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS)  
Edward Kennedy (D-MA)  
Patrick Leahy (D-VT)  
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)  
Charles Mathias (R-MD)  
Spark Matsunaga (D-HI)  
George McGovern (D-SD)  
Howard Metzenbaum (D-OH)  
Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY)  
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)  
Sam Nunn (D-GA)  
Bob Packwood (R-OR)  
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)  
Charles Percy (R-IL)  
David Pryor (D-AR)  
Abraham Ribicoff (D-CT)  
Donald Riegle (D-MI)  
Paul Sarbanes (D-MD)  
Jim Sasser (D-TN)  
Jack Schmitt (R-NM)  
Alan Simpson (R-WY)  
Robert Stafford (R-VT)  
Adlai Stevenson III (D-IL)  
Donald Stewart (D-AL)  
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)  
John Tower (R-TX)  
Paul Tsongas (D-MA)  
Malcolm Wallop (R-WY)  
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)  

Did Not Vote:

Howard Baker, Jr. (R-TN)  
Joe Biden (D-DE)  
John Chafee (R-RI)  
Robert Dole (R-KS)  
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)  
Carl Levin (D-MI)  
James McClure (R-ID)  
Robert Morgan (D-NC)  
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)  
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)  
John Stennis (D-MS)  
Ted Stevens (R-AK)  
Lowell Weicker (R-CT)  

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