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Senate Roll Call 896, 104th Congress · September 11, 1996

To prohibit the restriction of certain types of medical communications between a health care provider and a patient. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO WAIVE THE POINT OF ORDER WITH RESPECT TO THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF WYDEN/KENNEDY AMENDMENT NO. 5206 TO COMMITTEE AMENDMENT BEGINNING PAGE 16, LINE 16, THROUGH PAGE 17, LINE 2, TO PROHIBIT THE RESTRICTION OF CERTAIN TYPES OF MEDICAL COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN A HEALTH CARE PROVIDER AND A PATIENT.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

51 yea · 48 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat45 yea · 1 nay
Republican5 yea · 46 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3756 ↗

Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government 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 CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”

    model(0.85): Waiving budget rules advances protection for doctor-patient medical communications.

    Tagged by: keyword:health care

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) The underlying amendment is a policy regulation on doctor-patient communication rather than fiscal policy.

    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 (51)

Nay (48)

Not voting or present (1)

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