To eliminate the dividend and upper bracket tax cuts, which primarily benefit the wealthy, to provide the additional funds necessary for an adequate medicare prescription drug benefit, including assuring that the benefit is comprehensive, with no gaps or excessive cost-sharing, covers all medicare beneficiaries, provides special help for beneficiaries with low income, and does not undermine employer retirement coverage.

The measure

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): Expanding Medicare prescription drug benefits broadens health coverage.

  Tagged by: keyword:medicare,prescription drug

  Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

• TaxesA yea counts toward “Raise revenue”

  model(0.95): Eliminating tax cuts raises tax revenue.

  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.