Senate Roll Call 889, 104th Congress · September 5, 1996
To provide benefits for certain children of Vietnam veterans who are born with spina bifada, and to offset the cost of such benefits by requiring that there be an element of fault as a precondition for entitlement to compensation for a disability or death resulting from health care or certain other services furnished by the Department of Veterans Affairs. — (SENATE FAILED TO SUSTAIN A POINT OF ORDER THAT AMENDMENT NO. 5190, TO PROVIDE BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN CHILDREN OF VIETNAM VETERANS WHO ARE BORN WITH SPINA BIFIDA, AND TO OFFSET THE COST OF SUCH BENEFITS BY REQUIRING THAT THERE BE AN ELEMENT OF FAULT AS A PRECONDITION FOR ENTITLEMENT TO COMPENSATION FOR A DISABILITY OR DEATH RESULTING FROM HEALTH CARE OF CERTAIN OTHER SERVICES FURNISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, WAS NOT GERMANE.)
Question before the chamber: Whether the Amendment is Germane
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 (0.95) A vote on germaneness is a procedural vote.
Tagged by: keyword:health care
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Voting on germaneness is a procedural vote.
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 (62)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Mitch McConnell
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- 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
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Nay (35)
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Sheila Frahm
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Don Nickles
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Smith
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
Not voting or present (3)
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
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