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House Roll Call 853, 98th Congress · September 19, 1984

TO PASS H.R. 5290, A BILL ESTABLISHING A TEMPORARY PROGRAM UNDER WHICH PARENTERAL DIACETYLMORPHINE WILL BE MADE AVAILABLE THROUGH QUALIFIED PHARMACIES FOR THE RELIEF OF INTRACTABLE PAIN DUE TO CANCER. (MOTION PASSED)

55 yea · 355 nay22 not voting or present
Democrat44 yea · 202 nay
Republican11 yea · 150 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5290 ↗

Compassionate Pain Relief Act

Policy area: Health — 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): Establishing a program to make diacetylmorphine available to cancer patients expands medical treatment access.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Health

    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 (55)

Nay (355)

Not voting or present (22)

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