Senate Roll Call 373, 96th Congress · October 29, 1979
TO AMEND H.R. 3434, SOCIAL AND CHILD WELFARE BY PROVIDING ADOPTION ELIGIBILITY FOR SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME RECIPIENTS, TO DELETE THE MEANS TEST FOR ADOPTION ASSISTANCE, AND TO PROVIDE FULL MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR ADOPTED CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS UP TO AGE EIGHTEEN. (CONTINUED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980
Policy area: Social Welfare — 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(0.95): A yes vote expands Medicaid coverage to adopted children with special needs up to age 18.
Tagged by: keyword:medicaid
Axis: Expand coverage ← → Restrict coverage
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (61)
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Howard Walter Cannon
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Chester Culver
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Anthony Durkin
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Jacob Koppel Javits
- Roger William Jepsen
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Warren Grant Magnuson
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- George Stanley McGovern
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Richard Schultz Schweiker
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Adlai Ewing Stevenson III
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Milton Ruben Young
Nay (25)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Maurice Robert Gravel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Robert Burren Morgan
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Gaylord Anton Nelson
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Herman Eugene Talmadge
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (14)
- Birch Evans BayhDid not vote
- Henry Louis BellmonDid not vote
- Frank Forrester ChurchDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Howell Thomas HeflinDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Nancy Landon KassebaumDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- Donald Wilbur StewartDid not vote
- Richard Bernard StoneDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
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