Senate Roll Call 294, 115th Congress · December 1, 2017

To create a point of order against legislation that cuts Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid benefits.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

46 yea · 54 nayMotion Rejected

Democrat42 yea · 3 nay

Republican1 yea · 51 nay

Independent3 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1 ↗

An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to titles II and V of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018.

Policy area: Taxation — 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(0.90): Creating a point of order against cutting health benefits protects and maintains coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:medicare,medicaid
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
TaxesDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Protecting benefit programs from cuts does not directly alter tax policy.
Tagged by: policy-area:Taxation
Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

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

Yea (46)

Nay (54)

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.