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Their Record

Senate Roll Call 21, 111th Congress · January 28, 2009

To prohibit CHIP coverage for higher income children and to prohibit any payments to a State from its CHIP allotments for any fiscal year quarter in which the State Medicaid income eligibility level for children is greater than the income eligibility level for children under CHIP.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

36 yea · 60 nayAmendment Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 54 nay
Republican35 yea · 4 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2 ↗

Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009

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 “Restrict coverage”

    model(0.95): Prohibiting CHIP coverage for higher-income children restricts health 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 (36)

Nay (60)

Not voting or present (3)

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