Senate Roll Call 342, 109th Congress · November 17, 2005
To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide extended and additional protection to Medicare beneficiaries who enroll for the Medicare prescription drug benefit during 2006.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Tax Relief Act of 2005
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): Providing extended and additional protections to Medicare drug benefit beneficiaries expands health coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:medicare,prescription drug
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) This measure addresses Medicare prescription drug benefits, 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 (51)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Thomas R. Carper
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Kent Conrad
- Mark Dayton
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Mel Martinez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Barack Obama
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Ken Salazar
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Ron Wyden
Nay (47)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Richard Burr
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- William H. Frist
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Jon Kyl
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- Pat Roberts
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- James M. Talent
- Craig Thomas
- John Thune
- David Vitter
Not voting or present (2)
- Jon Stevens CorzineDid not vote
- Trent LottDid not vote
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