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Roll Call Vote #117 · 104th Congress · Session 2 · May 16, 1996, 8:31 PM (ET)

On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 3979 to S.Con.Res. 57 (No short title on file) (S.Con.Res. 57)

Amendment S.Amdt. 3979 (To restore $50 billion in excessive Medicare cuts designed to pay for new tax breaks for the wealthiest Americans, offset by the extension of expired tax provisions or corporate and business tax reforms; to protect seniors against unjustified increases in premiums and other out-of-pocket costs; to prevent the closing of rural hospitals and other excessive provider cuts that…

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… erode access to needed medical services; to prevent the implementation of policies designed to force seniors to give up their own doctors to join private health plans; and to protect Medicare against policies that will cause it to wither on the vine.)

Motion to Table Agreed to (55-43)
55 Yea
43 Nay
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How the Parties Voted

Republican 53 senators

52 Yea / 0 Nay

1 not voting or present

Majority position: Yea

Democrat 47 senators

3 Yea / 43 Nay

1 not voting or present

Majority position: Nay

Crossed Party Lines

Full Roll Call: How Every Senator Voted

Yea 55

Nay 43

Not Voting 2

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Source: Official U.S. Senate roll call vote data (senate.gov ↗).

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