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Senate Roll Call 35, 101st Congress · April 12, 1989

Expressing the sense of the Senate that the Finance Committee review PL 100-360, the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act of 1988, specifically the financing mechanism. — TO AMEND S 4, MINIMUM WAGE RESTORATION ACT, TO EXPRESS THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE HOLD HEARINGS ON THE MEDICARE CATASTROPHIC COVERAGE ACT OF 1988.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

97 yea · 2 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat53 yea · 0 nay
Republican42 yea · 2 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 4

Minimum Wage Restoration Act of 1989

Policy area: Labor and Employment — 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 (0.95) Sense-of-the-Senate resolutions are non-binding.

    Tagged by: keyword:medicare

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • Labor & WagesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Sense-of-the-Senate resolution on Medicare is unrelated to labor policy.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Labor and Employment

    Axis: Worker priority ← → Employer priority

Who voted which way

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

Yea (97)

Nay (2)

Not voting or present (1)

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