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Senate Roll Call 560, 106th Congress · July 13, 2000

To provide additional budget resources for a medicare prescription drug benefit program.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

46 yea · 53 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 2 nay
Republican2 yea · 51 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 8 ↗

Death Tax Elimination Act of 2000

Policy area: Taxation — 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): Provides budget resources to establish and expand Medicare prescription drug coverage.

    Tagged by: keyword:medicare,prescription drug

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Relates to spending resources for Medicare, not direct tax revenue or rates.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation

    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 (46)

Nay (53)

Not voting or present (1)

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