Senate Roll Call 113, 105th Congress · June 24, 1997
(1)To strike income-relating of the medicare part B premiums and deductibles; (2) To delay the effective date of income-relating of the medicare part B premiums and deductibles; and (3) To means-test Senatorial health benefits in the same way as the bill means-tests medicare part B premiums and deductibles. — (SENATE AGREED TO A MOTION TO TABLE THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT NO. 440, TO STRIKE INCOME-RELATING OF THE MEDICARE PART B PREMIUMS AND DEDUCTIBLES.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Balanced Budget Act of 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 “Restrict coverage”
model(0.85): Tabling the amendment preserves higher premiums and deductibles for higher-income beneficiaries.
Tagged by: keyword:medicare
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.85): Tabling the amendment preserves income-relating of Medicare premiums, maintaining government spending cuts.
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 (70)
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Larry E. Craig
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Michael B. Enzi
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- William H. Frist
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Tim Hutchinson
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- James M. Jeffords
- Dirk Kempthorne
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Mitch McConnell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Charles S. Robb
- Pat Roberts
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Robert Smith
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (30)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Barbara Boxer
- Robert C. Byrd
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- John McCain
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Patty Murray
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Torricelli
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (0)
None
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