Senate Roll Call 978, 93rd Congress · September 17, 1974
TO AMEND H.R. 15580. THE COMMITTEE AMENDMENT RELATES TO THE PROVISION OF ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES IN THE MEDICARE PROGRAM AT THE LOWEST POSSSIBLE COST. 87
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Departments of Labor, and Health, Education, and Welfare Appropriation Act, 1975
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 CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Administrative cost efficiency in Medicare does not directly expand or restrict healthcare coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:medicare
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”
model(0.85): Requiring administrative services at the lowest possible cost aims to limit spending.
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 (71)
- James Browning Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- James Lane Buckley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- James Oliver Eastland
- Samuel James Ervin Jr.
- Paul Jones Fannin
- Hiram Leong Fong
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Edward John Gurney
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Philip Aloysius Hart
- Rupert Vance Hartke
- Floyd Kirk Haskell
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- William Dodd Hathaway
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Roman Lee Hruska
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Harold Everett Hughes
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Little McClellan
- James Albertus McClure
- Gale William McGee
- George Stanley McGovern
- Thomas James McIntyre
- Lee Warren Metcalf
- Walter Frederick Mondale
- Joseph Manuel Montoya
- Frank Edward Moss
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- John Orlando Pastore
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- William Lloyd Scott
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- William Stuart Symington
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (14)
Not voting or present (16)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Alan Harvey BibleDid not vote
- Marlow Webster CookDid not vote
- Norris H. CottonDid not vote
- Peter Hoyt DominickDid not vote
- James William FulbrightDid not vote
- Maurice Robert GravelDid not vote
- Jacob Koppel JavitsDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Howard Morton MetzenbaumDid not vote
- Gaylord Anton NelsonDid not vote
- John Jackson SparkmanDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- John Varick TunneyDid not vote
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