Senate Roll Call 1120, 95th Congress · October 12, 1978
TO TABLE THE NELSON AMENDMENT TO H.R. 5285, AN AMENDMENT ESTABLISHING A VOLUNTARY HOSPITAL COST CONTAINMENT PROGRAM.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Medicare-Medicaid Administrative and Reimbursement Reform Act
Policy area: Foreign Trade and International 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) Hospital cost containment does not directly expand or restrict healthcare coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:hospital
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
- TradeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Hospital cost containment is unrelated to trade policy.
Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance
Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (43)
- Maryon Pittman Allen
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Dewey Follett Bartlett
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Frank Forrester Church
- Carl Thomas Curtis
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- James Oliver Eastland
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Clifford Peter Hansen
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- John Melcher
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Blackwood Pearson
- Charles Harting Percy
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Malcolm Wallop
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (48)
- James George Abourezk
- Wendell Richard Anderson
- Birch Evans Bayh
- Henry Louis Bellmon
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Edward William Brooke III
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- Clifford Philip Case
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- John Chester Culver
- John Anthony Durkin
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Robert Paul Griffin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Paul Gerhart Hatfield
- Kaneaster Hodges Jr.
- Muriel Buck Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- George Stanley McGovern
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John Jackson Sparkman
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Richard Bernard Stone
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (9)
- Richard Clarence ClarkDid not vote
- Pete V. DomeniciDid not vote
- Floyd Kirk HaskellDid not vote
- William Dodd HathawayDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Thomas James McIntyreDid not vote
- William Lloyd ScottDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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