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Senate Roll Call 485, 109th Congress · May 11, 2006

A bill to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Security Act of 1974 and the Public Health Service Act to expand health care access and reduce costs through the creation of small business health plans and through modernization of the health insurance marketplace.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

55 yea · 43 nayCloture Motion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 40 nay
Republican53 yea · 1 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1955 ↗

Health Insurance Marketplace Modernization and Affordability Act of 2006

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 CareA yea counts toward “Expand coverage”

    model(0.90): Advancing legislation for small business health plans aims to expand coverage access.

    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 (55)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (2)

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