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Senate Roll Call 534, 100th Congress · April 28, 1988

TO AMEND IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE THE ARMSTRONG, CO AMENDMENT TO S 1220, AIDS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION ACT, TO INVESTIGATE ETHICS AND APPLICABLE STATE AND FEDERAL LAWS OF WITHHOLDING FOOD AND FLUIDS FROM TERMINAL AIDS PATIENTS.

60 yea · 36 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat48 yea · 4 nay
Republican12 yea · 32 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1220

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome Research and Information Act of 1988

Policy area: Health — 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 (0.85) Investigating ethics of withholding food and fluids does not directly expand or restrict coverage.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Health

    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 (60)

Nay (36)

Not voting or present (4)

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