Senate Roll Call 518, 104th Congress · October 27, 1995
To provide States additional flexibility in providing for medicaid beneficiaries. — (SENATE REJECTED GRAMM AMENDMENT NO. 2978, TO PROVIDE STATES ADDITIONAL FLEXIBILITY IN PROVIDING FOR MEDICAID BENEFICIARIES.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Balanced Budget Reconciliation Act of 1995
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 “Restrict coverage”
model(0.80): Granting state flexibility in Medicaid allows states to restrict benefits and eligibility.
Tagged by: keyword:medicaid
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.80): State flexibility in Medicaid is intended to reduce or restrain spending.
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 (23)
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- George Hanks Brown
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Don Nickles
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Robert Smith
- Fred Thompson
Nay (76)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- William H. Frist
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (0)
None
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