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Senate Roll Call 543, 102nd Congress · October 2, 1992

A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act to revise and extend the programs of the National Institutes of Health, and for other purposes. — S.2899 BY KENNEDY, EDWARD (D-MA) -- NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH REVITALIZATION AMENDMENTS OF 1992 (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE AGREED TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON THE MOTION TO PROCEED TO CONSIDERATION OF THE BILL.)

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

85 yea · 12 nayCloture Motion Agreed to3 not voting or present
Democrat53 yea · 1 nay
Republican30 yea · 11 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2899

National Institutes of Health Revitalization Amendments of 1992

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 (0.90) NIH biomedical research reauthorization does not directly address health insurance coverage, and vote was on motion to proceed.

    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 (85)

Nay (12)

Not voting or present (3)

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