Senate Roll Call 358, 99th Congress · December 9, 1985
TO TABLE THE HEINZ, PA) APPEAL OF THE CHAIR'S RULING ON THE GERMANENESS OF THE AMENDMENT TO HJ RES 465, CONCERNING MEDICARE.
45 yea · 41 nay14 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 28 nay
Republican31 yea · 13 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 (45)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Pete V. Domenici
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (41)
- Mark Andrews
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- 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
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Don Nickles
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (14)
- James AbdnorDid not vote
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- Alfonse Marcello D’AmatoDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Robert Joseph DoleDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- John Porter EastDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Paul Dominque LaxaltDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
- Arlen SpecterDid not vote
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