Senate Roll Call 482, 109th Congress · May 8, 2006
A bill to improve women's access to health care services and provide improved medical care by reducing the excessive burden the liability system places on the delivery of obstetrical and gynecological services.
Question before the chamber: On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Healthy Mothers and Healthy Babies Access to Care Act
Policy area: Law — 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 (0.90) Medical malpractice liability limits do not directly restrict or expand health coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:health care
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
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Jim DeMint
- Michael DeWine
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- William H. Frist
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Jon Kyl
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- Mitch McConnell
- Lisa Murkowski
- 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
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
Nay (44)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Thomas R. Carper
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Mike Crapo
- Mark Dayton
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Lindsey Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- 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
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Barack Obama
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Ken Salazar
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Richard C. Shelby
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (7)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Samuel D. BrownbackDid not vote
- Conrad BurnsDid not vote
- Kent ConradDid not vote
- James M. JeffordsDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
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