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Senate Roll Call 352, 100th Congress · October 27, 1987

TO TABLE THE HELMS, NC AMENDMENT TO S 1127, THE CATASTROPHIC HEALTH INSURANCE ACT, WHICH WOULD EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT FEDERAL TAX RATES SHOULD NOT BE RAISED.

65 yea · 32 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat48 yea · 3 nay
Republican17 yea · 29 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1127 ↗

Medicare Catastrophic Loss Prevention Act of 1987

Policy area: Social Welfare — 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.

  • Health CareDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A sense-of-the-Senate tax resolution does not affect health care coverage.

    Tagged by: keyword:health insurance

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (65)

Nay (32)

Not voting or present (3)

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