Senate Roll Call 881, 104th Congress · September 4, 1996
To require a plan for the allocation of Department of Veterans Affairs health care resources. — (SENATE AGREED TO MCCAIN MODIFIED AMENDMENT NO. 5177, TO REQUIRE A PLAN FOR THE ALLOCATION OF DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS HEALTH CARE RESOURCES.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1997
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 CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Requiring a resource allocation plan is an administrative measure that does not directly expand or restrict coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:health care
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Requiring an allocation plan for VA health resources is administrative and does not directly change spending levels.
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 (79)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- 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
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Sheila Frahm
- William H. Frist
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Jon Kyl
- Carl Levin
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
- Ron Wyden
Nay (18)
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- William Warren Bradley
- Robert C. Byrd
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Russell D. Feingold
- Tom Harkin
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (3)
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Richard J. SantorumDid not vote
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