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Senate Roll Call 579, 107th Congress · July 31, 2002

To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide protection for all medicare beneficiaries against the costs of prescription drugs.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

49 yea · 50 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat45 yea · 5 nay
Republican3 yea · 44 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 812 ↗

Greater Access to Affordable Pharmaceuticals Act of 2002

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(0.95): Motion advances adding prescription drug benefits to Medicare, expanding healthcare coverage.

    Tagged by: policy-area: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 (49)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (1)

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