Senate Roll Call 619, 110th Congress · July 15, 2008
A bill to amend titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act to extend expiring provisions under the Medicare Program, to improve beneficiary access to preventive and mental health services, to enhance low-income benefit programs, and to maintain access to care in rural areas, including pharmacy access, and for other purposes.
Question before the chamber: On Overriding the Veto
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008
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): Overriding veto enacts Medicare coverage expansions and benefit extensions.
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 (70)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lamar Alexander
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Robert C. Byrd
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Saxby Chambliss
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Kent Conrad
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Tom Harkin
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Johnny Isakson
- Tim Johnson
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- Claire McCaskill
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Ben Nelson
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Ken Salazar
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ted F. Stevens
- Jon Tester
- George V. Voinovich
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Roger F. Wicker
- Ron Wyden
Nay (26)
- Wayne A. Allard
- John Barrasso
- Robert F. Bennett
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Tom Coburn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- James M. Inhofe
- Jon Kyl
- Mitch McConnell
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- John E. Sununu
- John Thune
- David Vitter
Not voting or present (4)
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Barack ObamaDid not vote
- John W. WarnerDid not vote
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