Senate Roll Call 210, 106th Congress · July 15, 1999
A bill to amend the Public Health Service Act, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, and the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to protect consumers in managed care plans and other health coverage.
Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Patients' Bill of Rights Plus Act
Policy area: Health — 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(0.90): Passing the Patients' Bill of Rights protects health care consumers and expands coverage rights.
Tagged by: policy-area:Health
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) A health care patient protection bill does not directly raise revenue or cut taxes.
Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (53)
- Spencer Abraham
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- Michael B. Enzi
- William H. Frist
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Tim Hutchinson
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- James M. Jeffords
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Pat Roberts
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
Nay (47)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- John Reid Edwards
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Peter G. Fitzgerald
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Robert Torricelli
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (0)
None
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