Senate Roll Call 101, 101st Congress · June 23, 1989
To replace the tax credit for health insurance premiums with an increase in the earned income tax credit. — TO AMEND S 5, ACT FOR BETTER CHILD CARE, TO SUPERSEDE THE HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS TAX CREDITS WITH INCREASES IN THE EARNED INCOME TAX CREDIT.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Act for Better Child Care Services of 1989
Policy area: Families — 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 CareA yea counts toward “Restrict coverage”
model(0.85): Replacing health insurance premium tax credits with income credits removes a specific health coverage incentive.
Tagged by: keyword:health insurance
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Swapping one tax credit for another has an unclear net impact on total tax revenues.
Tagged by: keyword:income tax,tax credit
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (45)
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Conrad Burns
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- James M. Jeffords
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Nay (53)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (2)
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
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