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House Roll Call 712, 104th Congress · October 19, 1995

H.R.2425 BY ARCHER (R-TX) -- MEDICARE PRESERVATION ACT OF 1995 (HOUSE REJECTED THE GIBBONS AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE THAT SOUGHT TO REDUCE MEDICARE BY $90 BILLION OVER SEVEN YEARS, REDUCE PART A SPENDING BY AN AMOUNT SUFFICIENT TO EXTEND THE SOLVENCY OF THE PART A HOSPITAL TRUST FUND TO 2006, AND REDUCE COST SHARING BY MEDICARE BENEFICIARIES BY FREEZING THE PART B PREMIUM FOR ONE YEAR AND PROVIDING THAT THE MONTHLY PREMIUM IN SUCCEEDING YEARS WOULD BE BELOW THE LEVEL UNDER CURRENT LAW.)

Question before the chamber: On agreeing to the Substitute Amendment

149 yea · 283 nayFailed1 not voting or present
Democrat147 yea · 48 nay
Republican2 yea · 234 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2425 ↗

Medicare Preservation Act of 1995

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 “Expand coverage”

    model(0.85): Substitute amendment froze premiums and preserved Medicare benefits compared to underlying bill.

    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 (149)

Nay (283)

Not voting or present (1)

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