Senate Roll Call 357, 99th Congress · December 9, 1985
TO TABLE THE KENNEDY, MA) APPEAL OF THE CHAIR'S RULING ON THE GERMANENESS OF THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT TO HJ RES 465, CONCERNING AN INCREASE IN MEDICARE DEDUCTIBLES AND THE TAX ON CIGARETTES.
53 yea · 37 nay10 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 28 nay
Republican39 yea · 9 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 CareDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Vote is on a procedural ruling regarding germaneness.
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 (53)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (37)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Paula Hawkins
- Henry John Heinz III
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (10)
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- John Porter EastDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
- Arlen SpecterDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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