Senate Roll Call 70, 98th Congress · May 4, 1983
TO AMEND S. CON.RES.27 BY ADDING FUNDS FOR MEDICARE. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 4
45 yea · 50 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat41 yea · 3 nay
Republican4 yea · 47 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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): Adding funds for Medicare expands health care funding and coverage.
Tagged by: keyword:medicare
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 (45)
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Gary Warren Hart
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (50)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- 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
Not voting or present (5)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Charles Harting PercyDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
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