Senate Roll Call 33, 98th Congress · March 18, 1983
TO AMEND H.R. 1900 TO REMOVE THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE STATE MEDICAID COST CONTAINMENT PROGRAM BE ESTABLISHED BY JULY 1, 1981, AND TO PROVIDE AN INCENTIVE TO STATES TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN SYSTEM. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 2
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Social Security Amendments of 1983
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 CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Modifying administrative deadlines for Medicaid cost containment does not clearly expand or restrict coverage.
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 (28)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
Nay (64)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (8)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- James Danforth QuayleDid not vote
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