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Senate Roll Call 415, 109th Congress · March 15, 2006

To establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to protect medicare beneficiaries who enroll in the prescription drug benefit during 2006.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

49 yea · 49 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 0 nay
Republican4 yea · 49 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S.Con.Res. 83 ↗

An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2007 and including the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2006 and 2008 through 2011.

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(0.95): Voting yes creates a reserve fund to protect Medicare prescription drug beneficiaries.

    Tagged by: keyword:medicare,prescription drug

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) The measure creates a deficit-neutral reserve fund without directly changing 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 (49)

Not voting or present (2)

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