Senate Roll Call 264, 108th Congress · July 9, 2003
A bill to protect patients' access to quality and affordable health care by reducing the effects of excessive liability costs.
Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Patients First 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 CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Medical malpractice liability reform is tort policy rather than direct 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)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- 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
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Pat Roberts
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- 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
Nay (48)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- John B. Breaux
- 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
- Lindsey Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Richard C. Shelby
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (3)
- Bob GrahamDid not vote
- John F. KerryDid not vote
- Zell Bryan MillerDid not vote
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