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Senate Roll Call 159, 108th Congress · May 15, 2003

To ensure the enactment of a medicare prescription drug benefit.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

44 yea · 56 nayMotion Rejected
Democrat42 yea · 6 nay
Republican1 yea · 49 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1054

Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2003

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(0.95): Enacting a Medicare prescription drug benefit expands health care coverage.

    Tagged by: keyword:medicare,prescription drug

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Creating a Medicare prescription drug benefit is spending, not tax policy.

    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 (44)

Nay (56)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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