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
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Harris Wofford
Not voting or present (2)
- Patty MurrayDid not vote
- Arlen SpecterDid not vote
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