Al Franken on Health Care

DemocratMN

Health Care126 votes · 82/100 consistent

Expand coverageRestrict coverage

217 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Health Care. 126 of them counted toward the score above: 96 toward “Expand coverage” and 30 toward “Restrict coverage”.

The other 91 did not count: 90 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
2014-04-02	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that emergency services volunteers are not taken into account as employees under the shared responsibility requirements contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.H.R. 3979 · 113th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Expand coverage
2014-03-31	A bill to amend the Social Security Act to extend Medicare payments to physicians and other provisions of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and for other purposes.H.R. 4302 · 113th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Nay	Restrict coverage
2014-03-31	A bill to amend the Social Security Act to extend Medicare payments to physicians and other provisions of the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and for other purposes.H.R. 4302 · 113th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Expand coverage
2014-03-27	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that emergency services volunteers are not taken into account as employees under the shared responsibility requirements contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.H.R. 3979 · 113th Congress · On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed	Yea	Restrict coverage
2013-11-12	A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to human drug compounding and drug supply chain security, and for other purposes.H.R. 3204 · 113th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2013-05-15	Marilyn B. Tavenner, of Virginia, to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ServicesPN138 · 113th Congress · On the Nomination	Yea	Direction not readable
2013-03-23	To amend the reconciliation instructions to include instructions to the Committee on Finance to achieve the Budget's stated goal of $275 billion in mandatory health care savings.S.Con.Res. 8 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Expand coverage
2013-03-23	To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to achieve savings by prohibiting illegal immigrants or illegal immigrants granted legal status from qualifying for federally subsidized health care.S.Con.Res. 8 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Expand coverage
2013-03-22	To force Congress to ensure the solvency of the Social Security and Medicare programs.S.Con.Res. 8 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2013-03-22	To repeal the tax increase on catastrophic medical expenses created by Obamacare.S.Con.Res. 8 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2013-03-22	To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to sunset the provision of Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that increases payments to hospitals in a few States by reducing payments to the majority of States through the Medicare hospital wage index.S.Con.Res. 8 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2013-03-22	To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect women's access to health care, including primary and preventive care, in a manner consistent with protecting rights of conscience.S.Con.Res. 8 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Expand coverage
2013-03-22	To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect women's access to health care, including primary and preventative health care, family planning and birth control, and employer-provided contraceptive coverage, such as was provided under the Affordable Care Act (PL 111-148).S.Con.Res. 8 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Expand coverage
2013-03-22	To establish a deficit neutral reserve fund to repeal the tax increases enacted under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that were imposed on low- and middle-income Americans.S.Con.Res. 8 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Expand coverage
2013-03-22	To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to provide for the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 and to encourage patient-centered reforms to improve health outcomes and reduce health care costs, promoting economic growth.S.Con.Res. 8 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Expand coverage
2013-03-21	To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect Medicare's guaranteed benefits and to prohibit replacing guaranteed benefits with the House passed budget plan to turn Medicare into a voucher program.S.Con.Res. 8 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Expand coverage
2013-03-13	To prohibit the use of funds to carry out the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.H.R. 933 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Expand coverage
2012-06-26	A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise and extend the user-fee programs for prescription drugs and medical devices, to establish user-fee programs for generic drugs and biosimilars, and for other purposes.S. 3187 · 112th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2012-06-25	A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise and extend the user-fee programs for prescription drugs and medical devices, to establish user-fee programs for generic drugs and biosimilars, and for other purposes.S. 3187 · 112th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2012-05-24	A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to revise and extend the user-fee programs for prescription drugs and medical devices, to establish user-fee programs for generic drugs and biosimilars, and for other purposes.S. 3187 · 112th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Direction not readable
2012-05-24	To require manufacturers of dietary supplements to register dietary supplement products with the Food and Drug Administration.S. 3187 · 112th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2012-05-24	To revoke the exclusivity of certain entities that are responsible for violations of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the False Claims Act, and other certain laws.S. 3187 · 112th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Expand coverage
2012-05-24	To allow the importation by individuals of safe and affordable drugs from Canada.S. 3187 · 112th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Expand coverage
2012-05-24	To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act concerning claims about the effects of foods and dietary supplements on health-related conditions and disease, to prohibit employees of the Food and Drug Administration from carrying firearms and making arrests without warrants, and to adjust the mens rea of certain prohibited acts under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to knowing and willful.S. 3187 · 112th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2012-05-24	To prohibit approval by the Food and Drug Administration of genetically engineered fish unless the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration concurs with such approval.S. 3187 · 112th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2012-05-24	To provide substantial savings in health care costs to the Federal government and consumers by fostering competition among generic pharmaceutical manufacturers and ensuring that anti-competitive "pay-for-delay" settlements between brand-name and generic pharmaceutical manufacturers do not block generic drugs from entering the market.S. 3187 · 112th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2012-03-01	To amend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to protect rights of conscience with regard to requirements for coverage of specific items and services.S. 1813 · 112th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Expand coverage
2012-02-17	A bill to extend the payroll tax holiday, unemployment compensation, Medicare physician payment, provide for the consideration of the Keystone XL pipeline, and for other purposes.H.R. 3630 · 112th Congress · On the Conference Report	Yea	Expand coverage
2011-11-10	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the imposition of 3 percent withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government entities, to modify the calculation of modified adjusted gross income for purposes of determining eligibility for certain healthcare-related programs, and for other purposes.H.R. 674 · 112th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Restrict coverage
2011-11-07	To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the imposition of 3 percent withholding on certain payments made to vendors by government entities, to modify the calculation of modified adjusted gross income for purposes of determining eligibility for certain healthcare-related programs, and for other purposes.H.R. 674 · 112th Congress · On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed	Yea	Restrict coverage
2011-10-20	To prohibit the Food and Drug Administration from preventing an individual not in the business of importing a prescription drug from importing an FDA-approved prescription drug from Canada.H.R. 2112 · 112th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Expand coverage
2011-04-05	To protect small businesses from health insurance premium increases or losses of health insurance coverage.H.R. 4 · 112th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Expand coverage
2011-02-02	To repeal the job-killing health care law and health care-related provisions in the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.S. 223 · 112th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Expand coverage
2011-02-02	To repeal the expansion of information reporting requirements under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and for other purposes.S. 223 · 112th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2010-12-09	A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to extend and improve protections and services to individuals directly impacted by the terrorist attack in New York City on September 11, 2001, and for other purposes.H.R. 847 · 111th Congress · On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed	Yea	Expand coverage
2010-09-29	A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule relating to status as a grandfathered health plan under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.S.J.Res. 39 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Proceed	Nay	Expand coverage
2010-09-14	To exempt certain amounts subject to other information reporting from the information reporting provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and for other purposes.H.R. 5297 · 111th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2010-03-25	An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13).H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Expand coverage
2010-03-25	To give States incentives to reduce fraud, waste, and abuse in their Medicaid programs.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2010-03-25	To strike the 2-year limitation on the small business tax credit for taxable years after the Exchanges open.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Restrict coverage
2010-03-25	To provide an inflation adjustment for the additional hospital insurance tax on high-income taxpayers.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2010-03-25	To strike the penalty for failure to comply with the individual mandate.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Expand coverage
2010-03-25	An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13).H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2010-03-25	To prevent the new government entitlement program from further increasing an unsustainable deficit.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Expand coverage
2010-03-25	To index tax thresholds imposed under the legislation to prevent the government from using inflation to impose those taxes on individuals currently making less than $200,000 and families making less than $250,000.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2010-03-25	To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to ensure Medicare beneficiary access to physicians, eliminate sweetheart deals for frontier States, and ensure equitable reimbursement under the Medicare program for all rural states.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Restrict coverage
2010-03-25	To ensure that health care reform reduces health care costs for American families, small businesses, and taxpayers.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2010-03-25	To ensure that Americans are not require to pay for the health benefits for those here illegally by requiring the use of an effective eligibility verification system, consistent with existing law for other federal health related programs, and to also maintain the current, and well-established requirement of law, that legal immigrants should not become a "public charge" or burden to the American taxpayers, to reduce the cost of this bill, and to reduce the deficit and for other purposes.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Expand coverage
2010-03-25	To help protect Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2010-03-25	To improve access to pro bono care for medically underserved or indigent individuals by providing limited medical liability protections.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Restrict coverage
2010-03-25	To increase women's access to breast cancer screenings.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Restrict coverage
2010-03-25	To repeal the sunset on marriage penalty relief and to make the election to deduct State and local sales taxes permanent.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2010-03-25	To repeal the limitation on itemized medical expense deductions.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2010-03-25	To protect the democratic process and the right of the people of the District of Columbia to define marriage.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2010-03-25	To provide a temporary extension of certain programs.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2010-03-25	To allow individuals to elect to opt out of the Medicare part A benefits.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Expand coverage
2010-03-25	An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13).H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Restrict coverage
2010-03-24	To protect Medicare beneficiary access to hospital care in rural areas from recommendations by the Independent Payment Advisory Board.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Restrict coverage
2010-03-24	To repeal the government takeover of health care.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Expand coverage
2010-03-24	To protect the integrity of Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Defense health care programs for veterans, active-duty service members, their families, widows and widowers, and orphans who have sacrificed in defense of our Nation.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Restrict coverage
2010-03-24	To provide for a long-term fix to the Medicare sustainable growth rate formula in order to improve access for Medicare beneficiaries.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Restrict coverage
2010-03-24	To protect access for America's wounded warriors.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Restrict coverage
2010-03-24	To exclude pediatric devices for persons with disabilities from the medical device tax.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2010-03-24	To strike the medical device tax.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2010-03-24	An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13).H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Restrict coverage
2010-03-24	To repeal the CLASS Act.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Expand coverage
2010-03-24	To ensure that no State experiences a net job loss as a result of the enactment of the SAFRA Act.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2010-03-24	To improve the bill by waiving the $40,000 penalty on hiring previously unemployed individuals.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2010-03-24	To protect the right of States to opt out of a Federal health care takeover.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Expand coverage
2010-03-24	To reduce the cost of providing federally funded prescription drugs by eliminating fraudulent payments and prohibiting coverage of Viagra for child molesters and rapists and for drugs intended to induce abortion.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Expand coverage
2010-03-24	An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13).H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2010-03-24	To enroll Members of Congress in the Medicaid program.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2010-03-24	An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13).H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2010-03-24	To make sure the President, Cabinet Members, all White House Senior staff and Congressional Committee and Leadership Staff are purchasing health insurance through the health insurance exchanges established by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2010-03-24	To ensure that Americans can keep the coverage they have by keeping premiums affordable.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Expand coverage
2010-03-24	An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13).H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2010-03-24	An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13).H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2010-03-24	To eliminate the sweetheart deals for Tennessee, Hawaii, Louisiana, Montana, Connecticut, and frontier States.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Expand coverage
2010-03-24	To prevent Medicare from being used for new entitlements and to use Medicare savings to save Medicare.H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Expand coverage
2010-03-23	An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13).H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Proceed	Yea	Expand coverage
2010-03-23	An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13).H.R. 4872 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Adjourn	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-12-24	An act entitled The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Expand coverage
2009-12-23	An act entitled The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Expand coverage
2009-12-23	In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-12-23	In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-12-23	In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Point of Order	Nay	Direction not readable
2009-12-23	In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-12-23	In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-12-23	In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Point of Order	Nay	Direction not readable
2009-12-22	In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-12-22	To improve the bill.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-12-22	To change the enactment date.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-12-21	To improve the bill.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-12-16	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-12-15	To provide for the importation of prescription drugs.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Restrict coverage
2009-12-15	To provide for the importation of prescription drugs.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Expand coverage
2009-12-15	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2009-12-15	To protect middle class families from tax increases.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-12-08	A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to modify the first-time homebuyers credit in the case of members of the Armed Forces and certain other Federal employees, and for other purposes.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2009-12-08	To prohibit the use of Federal funds for abortions.H.R. 3590 · 111th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Expand coverage

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.