Senate Roll Call 172, 112th Congress · October 20, 2011

To prohibit the Food and Drug Administration from preventing an individual not in the business of importing a prescription drug from importing an FDA-approved prescription drug from Canada.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

45 yea · 55 nayAmendment Rejected

Democrat28 yea · 22 nay

Republican16 yea · 31 nay

Independent1 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2112 ↗

Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2012

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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): Allowing importation of lower-cost prescription drugs expands access to health coverage options.
Tagged by: keyword:prescription drug
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Allowing drug reimportation is a regulatory health policy rider, not a fiscal spending axis vote.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (45)

Nay (55)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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