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Senate Roll Call 234, 101st Congress · October 6, 1989

Creating the "Medicare Catastrophic Revision Act of 1989". — TO AMEND IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE S 1726, CATASTROPHIC INSURANCE REFORM, TO GET RID OF THE INCOME SURTAX AND SOME OTHER PROVISIONS.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

35 yea · 64 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat32 yea · 21 nay
Republican2 yea · 42 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1726 ↗

A bill to repeal medicare catastrophic coverage provisions effective in years after 1989 and the supplemental medicare premium, and for other purposes.

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 CareA yea counts toward “Restrict coverage”

    model(0.85): Amendment reduces or repeals Medicare catastrophic coverage benefits, restricting health care 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 (35)

Nay (64)

Not voting or present (1)

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