Senate Roll Call 426, 106th Congress · April 5, 2000
To condition Senate consideration of any tax cut reconciliation legislation on previous enactment of legislation to provide an outpatient prescription drug benefit under the medicare program that is consistent with medicare reform.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal years 2001 through 2005 and revising the budgetary levels for fiscal year 2000.
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): A yes vote demands enactment of a Medicare prescription drug benefit, promoting expanded health coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:medicare,prescription drug
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- TaxesA yea counts toward “Raise revenue”
model(0.85): A yes vote conditions tax cuts on passing drug benefits, creating a hurdle that hinders tax cuts.
Tagged by: keyword:tax cut
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”
model(0.80): A yes vote conditions tax cuts on enacting a new Medicare drug benefit, pushing for spending expansion.
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)
- Spencer Abraham
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- J. Maxwell Cleland
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Michael DeWine
- 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
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Torricelli
- Paul David Wellstone
- Ron Wyden
Nay (49)
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Ashcroft
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Thad Cochran
- Susan M. Collins
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- 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
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (0)
None
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