Senate Roll Call 244, 108th Congress · June 25, 2003
To provide that an eligible beneficiary is not responsible for paying the applicable percent of the monthly national average premium while the beneficiary is in the coverage gap and to sunset the bill, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Prescription Drug and Medicare Improvement Act of 2003
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(0.80): Waiving premiums during the coverage gap expands coverage benefits.
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 (39)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Thomas R. Carper
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Kent Conrad
- Jon Stevens Corzine
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Mark Dayton
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- John Reid Edwards
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Tim Johnson
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ron Wyden
Nay (56)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- John B. Breaux
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Saxby Chambliss
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Michael DeWine
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Peter G. Fitzgerald
- William H. Frist
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- James M. Jeffords
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mitch McConnell
- Zell Bryan Miller
- Lisa Murkowski
- Ben Nelson
- Don Nickles
- Pat Roberts
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- James M. Talent
- Craig Thomas
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (5)
- Ben Nighthorse CampbellDid not vote
- Bob GrahamDid not vote
- John F. KerryDid not vote
- Joseph I. LiebermanDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
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