House Roll Call 1277, 110th Congress · March 5, 2008

Paul Wellstone Mental Health and Addiction Equity Act

Question before the chamber: On Passage

268 yea · 148 nayPassed13 not voting or present

Democrat221 yea · 3 nay

Republican47 yea · 145 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.

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(0.95): Mandates mental health benefit parity, expanding healthcare coverage.
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 (268)

Nay (148)

Not voting or present (13)

Virginia Brown-WaiteDid not vote
Charles A. GonzalezDid not vote
Eddie Bernice JohnsonDid not vote
Ric KellerDid not vote
Marilyn N. MusgraveDid not vote
Ted PoeDid not vote
Charles B. RangelDid not vote
Rick RenziDid not vote
Bobby L. RushDid not vote
Tim WalbergDid not vote
Peter WelchDid not vote
Lynn C. WoolseyDid not vote
Albert Russell WynnDid not vote

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