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Senate Roll Call 538, 106th Congress · June 29, 2000

To prohibit health insurance companies form using genetic information to discriminate against enrollees, and to prohibit employers from using such information to discriminate in the workplace.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

44 yea · 54 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 0 nay
Republican0 yea · 53 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4577 ↗

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2001

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(0.95): Prohibiting genetic discrimination expands patient protections and access to health coverage.

    Tagged by: keyword:health insurance

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Prohibiting genetic discrimination is a regulatory measure, not a fiscal spending measure.

    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 (44)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (2)

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