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Senate Roll Call 492, 111th Congress · March 25, 2010

To ensure that Americans are not require to pay for the health benefits for those here illegally by requiring the use of an effective eligibility verification system, consistent with existing law for other federal health related programs, and to also maintain the current, and well-established requirement of law, that legal immigrants should not become a "public charge" or burden to the American taxpayers, to reduce the cost of this bill, and to reduce the deficit and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

55 yea · 43 nayMotion to Table Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat53 yea · 3 nay
Republican0 yea · 40 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4872 ↗

Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010

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(0.85): Tabling a measure that restricts benefits for immigrants preserves health care 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 (55)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (2)

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