Senate Roll Call 147, 101st Congress · July 27, 1989
To delay for 1 year the provisions of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988. — TO AMEND HR 2696, ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATIONS, TO DELAY FOR ONE YEAR IMPLEMENTATION OF MOST OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE MEDICARE CATASTROPHIC COVERAGE ACT.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1990
Policy area: Water Resources Development — 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(0.90): Delays implementation of catastrophic healthcare coverage expansion.
Tagged by: keyword:medicare
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.85): Delaying implementation of Medicare expansion reduces near-term government spending.
Tagged by: keyword:appropriations
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (42)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Daniel Coats
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Carl Levin
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Nay (58)
- Brockman Adams
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Ted F. Stevens
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (0)
None
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