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Senate Roll Call 238, 115th Congress · October 19, 2017

To provide for reconciliation instructions to the relevant committees for the purpose of repealing and replacing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

33 yea · 66 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 45 nay
Republican33 yea · 18 nay
Independent0 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Con.Res. 71 ↗

Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2018 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027.

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 “Restrict coverage”

    model(0.90): Instructing committees to repeal and replace the ACA restricts health care coverage.

    Tagged by: keyword:affordable care act

    Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Reconciliation instructions for ACA repeal focus on healthcare policy rather than clear budget direction.

    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 (33)

Nay (66)

Not voting or present (1)

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