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Roll Call Vote #76 · 105th Congress · Session 1 · May 21, 1997, 4:24 PM (ET)

On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 297 to S.Con.Res. 27 (No short title on file) (S.Con.Res. 27)

Amendment S.Amdt. 297 (To provide affordable health coverage for low- and moderate-income children and for additional deficit reduction, financed by an increase in the tobacco tax; in addition to the amounts included in the bi-partisan budget agreement for one or both of the following: (1) Medicaid, including outreach activities to identify and enroll eligible children and providing 12-month conti…

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…nuous eligibility; and also to restore Medicaid for current disabled children losing SSI because of the new, more strict definition of childhood eligibility; and (2) a program of capped mandatory grants to States to finance health insurance coverage for uninsured children.)

Motion to Table Agreed to (55-45)
55 Yea
45 Nay
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How the Parties Voted

Republican 55 senators

47 Yea / 8 Nay

Majority position: Yea

Democrat 45 senators

8 Yea / 37 Nay

Majority position: Nay

Crossed Party Lines

Full Roll Call: How Every Senator Voted

Yea 55

Nay 45

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