Ben Chandler on Health Care

DemocratKY

Health Care76 votes · 82/100 consistent

Expand coverageRestrict coverage

236 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Health Care. 76 of them counted toward the score above: 65 toward “Expand coverage” and 11 toward “Restrict coverage”.

The other 160 did not count: 159 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 1 was one they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
2006-07-27	Better Health Information System ActH.R. 4157 · 109th Congress · On Motion to Recommit with Instructions	Yea	Direction not readable
2006-07-27	Health Information Technology Promotion Act of 2006H.R. 4157 · 109th Congress · On Agreeing to the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2006-07-19	Stem Cell Research Enhancement ActH.R. 810 · 109th Congress · Passage, Objections of the President Not Withstanding	Yea	Direction not readable
2006-07-18	Alternative Pluripotent Stem Cell Therapies Enhancement ActS. 2754 · 109th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass	Nay	Direction not readable
2006-07-18	Fetus Farming Prohibition ActS. 3504 · 109th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass	Yea	Direction not readable
2006-06-22	Supporting the efforts to increase childhood cancer awareness, treatment, and researchH.Res. 323 · 109th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree, as Amended	Yea	Direction not readable
2006-06-21	To amend the Public Health Service Act to reauthorize support for graduate medical education programs in children’s hospitalsH.R. 5574 · 109th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended	Yea	Expand coverage
2006-06-21	Health Centers Renewal ActH.R. 5573 · 109th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass	Yea	Expand coverage
2006-05-11	Encouraging all eligible Medicare beneficiaries who have not yet elected enroll in the new Medicare Part D benefit to review the available options and to determine whether enrollment in a Medicare prescription drug plan best meets their current and future needs for prescription drug coverageH.Res. 802 · 109th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-12-17	Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research ActH.R. 2520 · 109th Congress · Suspend the Rules and Agree to the Senate Amendment	Yea	Expand coverage
2005-11-07	Supporting the goals and ideals of National Ovarian Cancer Awareness MonthH.Res. 444 · 109th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree, as Amended	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-07-28	To improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery systemH.R. 5 · 109th Congress · On Passage	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-07-28	To improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery systemH.R. 5 · 109th Congress · On Motion to Recommit with Instructions	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-07-27	Providing for consideration of H.R. 5, to improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery systemH.Res. 385 · 109th Congress · On Agreeing to the Resolution	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-07-27	Providing for consideration of H.R. 5, to improve patient access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the health care delivery systemH.Res. 385 · 109th Congress · On Ordering the Previous Question	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-07-27	To amend the Contolled Substances Act to lift the patient limitation on prescribing drug addiction treatments by medical practitioners in group practices, and for other purposesS. 45 · 109th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass	Yea	Expand coverage
2005-07-27	Patient Safety and Quality Improvement ActS. 544 · 109th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-07-26	To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to improve access and choice for entrepreneurs with small businesses with respect to medical care for their emplopyeesH.R. 525 · 109th Congress · On Passage	Nay	Restrict coverage
2005-07-26	To amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to improve access and choice for entrepreneurs with small businesses with respect to medical care for their emplopyeesH.R. 525 · 109th Congress · On Motion to Recommit with Instructions	Yea	Expand coverage
2005-07-26	Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2005H.R. 525 · 109th Congress · On Agreeing to the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-05-24	Stem Cell Therapeutic and Research ActH.R. 2520 · 109th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-05-24	Stem Cell Research Enhancement ActH.R. 810 · 109th Congress · On Passage	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-04-20	Recognizing the University of Pittsburgh and Dr. Jonas Salk on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Milestone Discovery of the Salk Polio VaccineH.Res. 208 · 109th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree, as Amended	Yea	Direction not readable
2004-10-07	Research Review ActH.R. 5213 · 108th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended	Yea	Direction not readable
2004-09-09	Garrett Lee Smith Memorial ActS. 2634 · 108th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended	Yea	Expand coverage
2004-07-14	Project BioShield ActS. 15 · 108th Congress · On Passage	Yea	Direction not readable
2004-06-14	Expressing the sense of Congress with respect to the need to provide prostate cancer patients with meaningful access to information on treatment options, and for other purposesH.Res. 669 · 108th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree	Yea	Direction not readable
2004-05-18	Undocumented Alien Emergency Medical Assistance AmendmentsH.R. 3722 · 108th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass	Nay	Expand coverage
2004-05-13	Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2004H.R. 4281 · 108th Congress · On Passage	Nay	Restrict coverage
2004-05-13	Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2004H.R. 4281 · 108th Congress · On Motion to Recommit with Instructions	Yea	Direction not readable
2004-05-13	Small Business Health Fairness Act of 2004H.R. 4281 · 108th Congress · On Agreeing to the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2004-05-12	Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2004H.R. 4280 · 108th Congress · On Passage	Nay	Direction not readable
2004-05-12	Help Efficient, Accessible, Low-Cost, Timely Healthcare (HEALTH) Act of 2004H.R. 4280 · 108th Congress · On Motion to Recommit with Instructions	Yea	Direction not readable
2004-03-24	Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that there is a critical need to increase awareness and education about heart disease and the risk factors of heart disease among womenH.Res. 522 · 108th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree	Yea	Direction not readable
2004-03-24	Organ Donation and Recovery Improvement ActH.R. 3926 · 108th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass	Yea	Direction not readable
2004-03-10	Medical Devices Technical Corrections ActS. 1881 · 108th Congress · On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended	Yea	Direction not readable

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Expand coverage / Restrict coverage axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.