Senate Roll Call 306, 105th Congress · February 10, 1998
David Satcher, of Tennessee, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, subject to qualifications therefor as provided by law and regulations, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service for a term of four years — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE AGREED TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON THE NOMINATION.)
Question before the chamber: On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
PN623
No bill title on file from congress.gov for this measure.
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) Voting on executive nominations is procedural personnel action, not a direct health coverage policy.
Tagged by: keyword:public health
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 (75)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- William H. Frist
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Rod Grams
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Don Nickles
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Robert Torricelli
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Nay (23)
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Daniel Coats
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael B. Enzi
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Jesse Helms
- Tim Hutchinson
- James M. Inhofe
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Jon Kyl
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mitch McConnell
- Pat Roberts
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Robert Smith
Not voting or present (2)
- Carl LevinDid not vote
- John W. WarnerDid not vote
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