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Senate Roll Call 178, 103rd Congress · June 24, 1993

To eliminate the reduction of payment updates for inpatient hospital services, the reduction in payment for indirect costs of medical education, the extension of medicare-dependent small rural hospital payments, the reduction in skilled nursing facility cost limits, the changes in payment for hospice care, and the changes to payment formulas for certain outpatient hospital services, and to pay for the provisions eliminated. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO WAIVE THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT OF 1974 WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF GRAHAM AMENDMENT NO. 548, TO ELIMINATE THE REDUCTION OF PAYMENT UPDATES FOR INPATIENT HOSPITAL SERVICES, THE REDUCTION IN PAYMENT FOR INDIRECT COSTS OF MEDICAL EDUCATION, THE EXTENSION OF MEDICARE-DEPENDENT SMALL RURAL HOSPITAL PAYMENTS, THE REDUCTION IN SKILLED NURSING FACILITY COST LIMITS, THE CHANGES IN PAYMENT FOR HOSPICE CARE, AND THE CHANGES TO PAYMENT FORMULAS FOR CERTAIN OUTPATIENT HOSPITAL SERVICES, AND TO PAY FOR THE PROVISIONS ELIMINATED.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

15 yea · 83 nayMotion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 38 nay
Republican0 yea · 44 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1134

Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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 “Expand coverage”

    model(0.90): Eliminating cuts to hospital and provider payments protects health care coverage.

    Tagged by: keyword:medicare,hospital

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Eliminating planned payment cuts increases health spending relative to the bill.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (15)

Nay (83)

Not voting or present (2)

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