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Senate Roll Call 287, 109th Congress · November 3, 2005

To hold Medicare beneficiaries harmless for the increase in the 2007 Medicare monthly part B premium that would otherwise occur because of the 2006 increase in payments under the physician fee schedule.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

49 yea · 50 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 1 nay
Republican5 yea · 49 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1932 ↗

Deficit Reduction Act of 2005

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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(0.85): Protecting beneficiaries from premium increases expands health coverage access.

    Tagged by: keyword:medicare

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.90): Government absorbing premium increases increases federal spending.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

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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