2008H.R. 6331

Medicare Choice

2008 - U.S. Senate

Conservatives Oppose

Description

The Senate adopted a bill that would discriminate against private insurance carriers under Medicare, keeping doctor payments (and taxpayer costs) high. ACU opposed the bill, but it was passed July 9, 2008 by a vote of 69-30.

69

Voted Yes

30

Voted No

1

Did Not Vote

Legislators · 100

LegislatorVote
Richard Shelby Conservative
Jefferson Sessions III Conservative
Theodore Stevens Leftist
Lisa Murkowski Leftist
John McCain III Did Not Vote
Jon Kyl Conservative
Blanche Lincoln Leftist
Mark Pryor Leftist
Dianne Feinstein Leftist
Barbara Boxer Leftist
A.Wayne Allard Conservative
Kenneth Salazar Leftist
Christopher Dodd Leftist
Joseph Lieberman Leftist
Joseph Biden Jr. Leftist
Thomas Carper Leftist
Clarence Nelson Leftist
Melquiades Martinez Leftist
Saxby Chambliss Leftist
Johnny Isakson Leftist
Daniel Inouye Leftist
Daniel Akaka Leftist
Larry Craig Conservative
Mike Crapo Conservative
Richard Durbin Leftist
Barack Obama Leftist
Richard Lugar Conservative
Evan Bayh Leftist
Chuck Grassley Conservative
Thomas Harkin Leftist
Sam Brownback Conservative
Charles Roberts Leftist
Mitch McConnell Conservative
James Bunning Conservative
Mary Landrieu Leftist
David Vitter Conservative
Olympia Snowe Leftist
Susan Collins Leftist
Barbara Mikulski Leftist
Benjamin Cardin Leftist
Edward Kennedy Leftist
John Kerry Leftist
Carl Levin Leftist
Debbie Stabenow Leftist
Norm Coleman Leftist
Amy Klobuchar Leftist
William Cochran Conservative
Roger Wicker Conservative
Christopher Bond Conservative
Claire McCaskill Leftist
Max Baucus Leftist
Jon Tester Leftist
Charles Hagel Conservative
Earl Nelson Leftist
Harry Reid Leftist
John Ensign Conservative
Judd Gregg Conservative
John Sununu Conservative
Frank Lautenberg Leftist
Robert Menendez Leftist
Pete Domenici Conservative
Jesse Bingaman Jr. Leftist
Charles Schumer Leftist
Hillary Clinton Leftist
Elizabeth Dole Leftist
Richard Burr Conservative
Kent Conrad Leftist
Byron Dorgan Leftist
George Voinovich Leftist
Sherrod Brown Leftist
Jim Inhofe Conservative
Thomas Coburn Conservative
Ron Wyden Leftist
Gordon Smith Leftist
Arlen Specter Leftist
Robert Casey, Jr. Leftist
Jack Reed Leftist
Sheldon Whitehouse Leftist
Lindsey Graham Conservative
James Demint Conservative
Timothy Johnson Leftist
John Thune Conservative
Lamar Alexander Leftist
Robert Corker Leftist
Kathryn Hutchison Leftist
John Cornyn Leftist
Orrin Hatch Conservative
Robert Bennett Conservative
Patrick Leahy Leftist
Bernard Sanders Leftist
John Warner Leftist
James Webb Leftist
Patty Murray Leftist
Maria Cantwell Leftist
Robert Byrd Leftist
John Rockefeller IV Leftist
Herbert Kohl Leftist
Russell Feingold Leftist
Michael Enzi Conservative
John Barrasso Conservative

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