Senate Roll Call 615, 113th Congress · December 12, 2014

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to ensure that emergency services volunteers are not taken into account as employees under the shared responsibility requirements contained in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Question before the chamber: On the Decision of the Chair

55 yea · 45 nayDecision of Chair Sustained

Democrat52 yea · 0 nay

Republican0 yea · 45 nay

Independent3 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3979 ↗

Carl Levin and Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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 CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Votes on the decision of the chair are procedural floor rulings.
Tagged by: keyword:affordable care act
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Votes on the decision of the chair are procedural floor rulings.
Tagged by: keyword:internal revenue code
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes
Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Decision of the chair is floor procedure and unrelated to defense policy.
Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

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

Yea (55)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (0)

None

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.