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Senate Roll Call 829, 104th Congress · July 23, 1996

To maintain current eligibility standards for medicaid and provide additional State flexibility. — (SENATE AGREED TO CHAFEE AMENDMENT NO. 4933 TO AMENDMENT 4931, TO MAINTAIN CURRENT ELIGIBILITY STANDARDS FOR MEDICAID AND PROVIDE ADDITIONAL STATE FLEXIBILITY.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

97 yea · 2 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat47 yea · 0 nay
Republican48 yea · 2 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1956 ↗

Personal Responsibility, Work Opportunity, and Medicaid Restructuring Act of 1996

Policy area: Social Welfare — 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): Maintaining Medicaid eligibility standards prevents coverage cuts.

    Tagged by: keyword:medicaid

    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 (97)

Nay (2)

Not voting or present (1)

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