105th Congress, 1st Session
2nd Session

Vote No. Date 1997 Voting
Position

CHRONOLOGICAL INDEX


Nomination of Madeleine Korbel Albright to be Secretary of State
1 1-22 Y Confirmation. (99-0)


Nomination of William S. Cohen to be Secretary of Defense
2 1-22 Y Confirmation. (99-0)


Nomination of Andrew M. Cuomo to be Secretary of HUD
3 1-29 Y Confirmation. (99-0)


Nomination of William M. Daley to be Secretary of Commerce
4 1-30 Y Confirmation. (95-2)


Breast Cancer Screening (S.Res. 47)
5 2-4 Y Adoption. (98-0)


Nomination of Rodney E. Slater to be Secretary of Transportation
6 2-6 Y Confirmation. (98-0)


Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment (S.J.Res. 1)
7 2-10 N Craig motion to table Durbin amendment: Permits waiver in event of economic recession by joint resolution adopted by majority of whole number of each house and becomes law. (64-35)

8 2-11 N Hatch motion to table Wellstone amendment: Adds section providing that in reaching balanced budget, nutrition, education, and health care of poor children shall not be disproportionately cut. (64-36)


Nomination of Bill Richardson to be U.S. Ambassador to the UN
9 2-11 Y Confirmation. (100-0)


Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment (S.J.Res. 1)
10 2-12 N Hatch motion to table Dodd modified amendment: Simplifies conditions for declaration of imminent and serious threat to national security and allows waiver to be adopted by simple majority. (64-36)


Milk Prices (S.Res. 55)
11 2-13 Y Adoption. (83-15)


Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment (S.J.Res. 1)
12 2-24 Y Hatch motion to table Byrd modified amendment: Strikes provision which allows reliance on estimates of outlays and receipts; and inserts language which requires provision to be implemented by law. (61-34)


International Family Planning Funds (H.J.Res. 36, P.L. 105-3)
13 2-25 Y Passage. (53-46)


Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment (S.J.Res. 1)
14 2-25 N Hatch motion to table Reid, et al., amendment: Prohibits use of receipts and outlays of Social Security Trust Funds in receipts and outlays of Federal government. (55-44)

15 2-26 N Hatch motion to table Feinstein, et al., substitute amendment: Prohibits use of Social Security Trust Fund receipts and outlays beginning in FY 2003 to determine if budget is balanced; retains restrictions on lifting debt limit requiring majority roll call vote; permits Congress, upon enactment of law, to waive provisions for any fiscal year in which U.S. is engaged in military conflict that threatens national security, or is experiencing national economic emergency or major natural disaster; and specifies that passage of constitutional amendment would not prohibit Congress from developing capital budget. (67-33)

16 2-26 Y Torricelli, et. al., amendment: Permits waiver when declaration of war is in effect, national security is threatened, and during economic emergencies; and allows capital budget. (37-63)

17 2-26 N Hatch motion to table Dorgan, et al., amendment: Prohibits inclusion of receipts and outlays of Social Security Trust Funds in receipts or outlays of Federal government. (59-41)

18 2-26 N Hatch motion to table Boxer amendment: Waives provisions in any year in which major disaster or emergency exists as designated by President and Congress. (60-40)

19 2-27 N Hatch motion to table Graham-Robb amendment: Makes section 2 applicable to gross debt, rather than public debt. (59-39)

20 2-27 N Hatch motion to table Kennedy amendment: Adds language to section 6 to specify that Congress has exclusive authority to enforce provisions of constitutional amendment, unless Congress enacts legislation granting enforcement authority to courts or President. (61-39)

21 2-27 N Hatch motion to table Feingold amendment: Requires underlying constitutional amendment to be approved by three-fourths of State legislatures within three years. (69-31)

22 2-27 N Hatch motion to table Feingold amendment: Permits use of accumulated surplus to balance budget during any fiscal year by majority vote. (60-40)

23 2-27 N Hatch motion to table Bumpers-Feingold motion to refer joint resolution to Budget Committee with instructions to report back with amendment that strikes underlying article and inserts statutory language amending Budget Act to create point of order against budget resolution that fails to set path toward balanced budget by FY 2002 and, beginning in FY 2002, one in which outlays exceed receipts; prohibits use of Social Security Trust Fund receipts and outlays to determine if budget is balanced; and allows balanced budget requirement to be waived (1) by three-fifths vote of whole number of each House, (2) if declaration of war is in effect, or (3) if U.S. is engaged in military conflict that causes imminent and serious threat to national security as declared by joint resolution adopted by majority of each House. (65-34)

** 24 3-4 N Passage (rejected). (66-34)


Trade Act Application Waiver (S.J.Res. 5, P.L. 105-5)
25 3-5 Y McCain motion to table Hollings-Helms amendment: Requires Congressional approval before implementation of international trade agreement that has effect of amending or repealing statutory law of U.S. (84-16)

26 3-5 Y Passage. (98-2)


Nomination of Charlene Barshefsky to be USTR
27 3-5 Y Confirmation. (99-1)


Federal Election Campaigns Investigation (S.Res. 39)
28 3-11 Y Lott-Thompson-Warner amendment: Requires investigation of improper, as well as illegal, activities in connection with 1996 Federal election campaigns. (99-0)

29 3-11 Y Adoption. (99-0)


Nomination of Federico Pena to be Secretary of Energy
30 3-12 Y Confirmation. (99-1)


Campaign Finance Constitutional Amendment (S.J.Res. 18)
** 31 3-18 Y Passage (rejected). (38-61)


Independent Counsel Appointment (S.J.Res. 22)
32 3-19 N Passage. (55-44)

33 3-19 N Lott motion to table joint resolution: Expresses sense of Congress that Attorney General should exercise her best professional judgement to determine whether independent counsel process should be invoked to investigate allegations of criminal misconduct by any government official, Member of Congress, or other person in connection with 1996 Presidential or Congressional election campaign. (58-41)


Nomination of Merrick B. Garland to be a U.S. Circuit Judge for the D.C. Circuit
34 3-19 Y Confirmation. (76-23)


Mexico Decertification (H.J.Res. 58)
35 3-20 Y Coverdell-Feinstein, et al., substitute amendment: Expresses sense of Congress that there has been ineffective and insufficient progress in halting production and transit through Mexico of illegal drugs; and requires President to report to Congress on U.S./Mexican progress in combating production of, and trafficking in, illicit drugs, and U.S. progress in implementing comprehensive anti-drug education effort and international drug interdiction and enforcement strategy, and in deploying 1,000 additional INS patrol agents in FY 1997. (94-5)


Nuclear Waste Policy (S. 104)
36 4-10 N Murkowski motion to table Reid-Bryan modified amendment (to Thurmond-Hollings amendment providing that Savannah River Site and Barnwell County, SC shall not be available for construction of interim facility [to Murkowski substitute amendment]): Requires express written consent of State's Governor prior to transporting high level waste or spent nuclear fuel through State to interim storage facility. (72-24)

37 4-10 3 Thompson-Frist amendment (to Murkowski substitute amendment): Prohibits designation of Oak Ridge Reservation, TN as interim storage facility site. (60-33)

38 4-10 3 Bumpers amendment (to Murkowski substitute amendment): Expresses sense of Senate that D.C. Circuit Court should consider that DOE's failure to meet January 1998 deadline to start disposing of spent nuclear fuel was caused by Congress' failure to appropriate needed funds and other government actions beyond DOE's control; and that Court should take contract's provisions on excusable delays into consideration in its ruling. (24-69)

39 4-10 3 Bingaman amendment (to Murkowski substitute amendment): Strikes all provisions creating special exemptions of potential sites for interim storage facility. (36-56)

40 4-15 N Murkowski motion to table Bingaman amendment (to Murkowski substitute amendment): Strikes language that requires construction of interim storage facility at Yucca Mountain, NV even if site is found unsuitable for permanent repository, unless President designates and Congress enacts legislation approving new site within two years; and requires Energy Department, if site is found to be unsuitable for permanent repository, to cease work on interim facility and to recommend one or more alternative sites, not limited to Nevada, within two years. (59-39)

41 4-15 N Lott (for Murkowski) amendment (to Domenici amendment asserting that no point of order can be waived during consideration of joint resolution on budget for nuclear waste storage program [to Murkowski substitute amendment]): Caps fee paid by utilities for nuclear waste disposal services at one mill (one-tenth of one cent) per kilowatt-hour of electricity generated and sold. (66-32)

42 4-15 N Passage. (65-34)


Taxpayer Protection (S. 522)
43 4-15 Y Passage. (97-0)


Assisted Suicide Funding Restriction (H.R. 1003, P.L. 105-12)
44 4-16 Y Passage. (99-0)


Chemical and Biological Weapons (S. 495)
45 4-17 N Passage. (53-44)


Chemical Weapons Convention Conditions (S.Res. 75)
46 4-24 Y Biden amendment: Strikes condition which requires President to certify to Congress, prior to ratification, that countries having offensive chemical weapons programs have ratified or acceded to Chemical Weapons Convention. (71-29)

47 4-24 Y Biden amendment: Strikes condition which requires U.S. to certify, prior to ratification, that Russia has ratified and is in compliance with Chemical Weapons Convention, and is making reasonable progress in implementing 1990 Bilateral Destruction Agreement; U.S. and Russia have resolved outstanding compliance issues under 1989 Wyoming Memorandum of Understanding; and Russia is committed to forgoing any chemical weapons capability or modernization program, production mobilization capability, or any other activity contrary to Convention. (66-34)

48 4-24 Y Biden amendment: Strikes condition which requires President to certify to Congress, prior to ratification, that U.S. intelligence community has "high degree of confidence" in its ability to detect militarily significant treaty violations within one year of violation, and patterns of marginal violation. (66-34)

49 4-24 Y Biden amendment: Strikes condition which requires U.S. to bar entry of inspectors and inspection assistants from countries that U.S. designates as supporters of international terrorism, or President determines have violated U.S. non-proliferation law in last five years. (56-44)

50 4-24 Y Biden amendment: Strikes condition which requires U.S. to certify, prior to ratification, that (1) state parties have agreed to strike Article X regarding assistance and protection against chemical weapons, and amend Article XI to strike provision that states or implies disapproval of trade restrictions in chemical activities; and (2) no provision states or implies right or obligation of state parties to share or facilitate exchange of chemical weapons defense technology, chemicals, equipment, or scientific and technical information. (66-34)

** 51 4-24 Y Adoption of resolution of ratification. (74-26)


Volunteer Protection (S. 543, P.L. 105-19)
* 52 4-29 N Lott, et al., cloture motion on motion to proceed. (53-46)

* 53 4-30 N Lott, et al., second cloture motion on motion to proceed. (55-44)


Nomination of Alexis M. Herman, of Alabama, to be Secretary of Labor
54 4-30 Y Confirmation. (85-13)


Volunteer Protection (S. 543, P.L. 105-19)
55 5-1 Y Passage. (99-1)


Supplemental Appropriations, 1997 (H.R. 1469, Vetoed)
56 5-6 Y Grams-Johnson-Daschle amendment: Allows exceptions to Truth in Lending and Expedited Funds Availability Acts to alleviate hardships resulting from disasters that outweigh possible adverse affects; allows certain deposit institutions to exclude insurance proceeds from total assets in calculating compliance with leverage limits under Federal Deposit Insurance Act; provides qualifying regulatory agencies flexibility to facilitate recovery within disaster areas; and expresses sense of Congress that Depository Institutions Disaster Relief Act should be amended to give regulators authority to waive certain appraisal standards in disaster areas. (98-0)

* 57 5-7 Y Lott, et al., cloture motion on bill. (100-0)

58 5-7 Y Stevens, et al., amendment: Strikes Social Services block grant provisions, including $125 million appropriation; extends current deadline for termination of Social Security income benefits for legal immigrants from August 22 to September 30, 1997; and offsets by rescinding unobligated balances from JOBS program, and by shifting budget authority for Title I Education for Disadvantaged program from FY 1997 to 1998. (89-11)

59 5-7 N Stevens motion to table Bumpers amendment: Strikes section which prohibits use of funds by agency to promulgate or implement rules, regulations, or policy with regard to rights-of-way across public lands. (51-49)

60 5-8 N Stevens motion to table Warner, et al., amendment: Provides that $793 million in additional highway funding be distributed under current law formula. (54-46)

61 5-8 N Stevens motion to table Byrd amendment: Strikes provision freezing FY 1998 appropriations at 100 percent of FY 1997 level for any program, project, or activity if regular FY 1998 appropriations bill or continuing resolution appropriating funds for these programs is not enacted by October 1, 1997. (55-45)

62 5-8 Y Stevens motion to table Gramm amendment: Reduces each amount of budget authority provided in domestic discretionary accounts for FY 1997 by uniform percentage necessary to offset nondefense budget authority provided in this Act; and designates, as emergency, portion of nondefense budget authority that is obligated during FY 1997. (62-38)

63 5-8 Y Stevens motion to read bill third time. (78-22)


Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Reauthorization (H.R. 5, P.L. 105-17)
64 5-14 N Jeffords motion to table Gorton amendment: Repeals all protections for disabled children; and provides that each State or local educational agency may establish and implement uniform policies with respect to discipline and order applicable to all children within its jurisdiction to ensure safety and appropriate educational atmosphere in its school. (51-48)

65 5-14 Y Jeffords motion to table Smith amendment: Requires court, when it orders payment of attorneys' fees to prevailing parents in civil action, to consider impact that paying award would have on education of all children served by State or local education agency. (68-31)

66 5-14 Y Passage. (98-1)


Conventioned Armed Forces in Europe
** 67 5-14 Y Adoption of resolution of ratification. (100-0)


Family Friendly Workplace (S. 4)
* 68 5-15 N Lott, et al., cloture motion on modified Committee amendment. (53-47)


Partial-Birth Abortion Ban (H.R. 1122, Vetoed)
69 5-15 Y Feinstein-Boxer-Moseley-Braun substitute amendment: Prohibits physician from knowingly performing abortion after fetus has become viable, unless, in attending physician's medical judgement, abortion is necessary to preserve life of mother or to avert serious adverse health consequences; permits Attorney General to commence civil action in appropriate U.S. district court for provider violations; requires physician to certify as to medical necessity for abortion; and stipulates that these provisions would not preclude State or local government from regulating post-viability abortions to extent permitted by U.S. Constitution. (28-72)

70 5-15 N Daschle, et al., substitute amendment: Prohibits all post-viability abortions, unless physician certifies that continuation of pregnancy would threaten mother's life or risk grievous injury to her physical health; establishes penalties for physician violations; and requires physician to certify as to medical necessity for abortion, and describe medical indications supporting his/her judgement. (36-64)

71 5-20 N Passage. (64-36)


First Budget Resolution, 1998 (H.Con.Res. 84)
72 5-20 N Domenici motion to table Dodd, et al., modified amendment: Increases discretionary spending caps by $14.6 billion in outlays in FY 1999-2002; and expresses sense of Senate that funding should be increased for programs serving children, offset through changes in tax code, including elimination of billionaire's loophole and increases in cigarette taxes. (61-39)

73 5-20 Y Domenici motion to table Allard-Inhofe amendment: Provides 60-vote point of order against any budget resolution for FY 1999-2002 in which defense and non-defense discretionary budget authority and outlays are not reduced to offset revenue shortfalls. (70-29)

74 5-20 N Hollings amendment: Saves $130 million over five years by eliminating $85 billion in tax cuts, $31.2 billion in Presidential initiatives, and $13.8 billion in interest. (8-91)

75 5-21 Y Domenici modified amendment (to Hatch-Kennedy-Kerry amendment--Vote No. 76): Restores levels for revenues, budget authority, outlays, and allowable deficit spending and public debt to reported levels; states that Bipartisan Budget Agreement, incorporated in this resolution, would spend $16 billion over five years to provide health insurance to up to five million children and that these funds could be spent on Medicaid outreach activities and/or capped mandatory grants to States to finance health insurance for uninsured children. (98-2)

76 5-21 Y Domenici motion to table Hatch-Kennedy-Kerry amendment, as amended (Vote No. 75): Increases spending levels by $20 billion in FY 1998-2002 to provide affordable health coverage for low- and moderate-income children; assumes additional $10 billion for deficit reduction; and offsets through increase in tobacco tax. (55-45)

77 5-21 Y Lautenberg motion to table Gramm amendment: Decreases nondefense discretionary spending by $77 billion in FY 1998-2002, with savings to be used to increase net tax cut from $85 billion to $161 billion, allowing full funding of $500 per child tax credit and capital gains tax cut. (68-31)

78 5-21 Y Mack, et al., amendment: Expresses sense of Senate that appropriations for NIH should be increased by 100 percent over next five fiscal years, and by $2 billion in FY 1998. (98-0)

79 5-22 N Domenici motion to table Moseley-Braun, et al., amendment: Increases Function 500 (Education, Training, Employment, and Social Services) by $5.0 billion in budget authority in FY 1988 and $5.0 billion in outlays in FY 1998-2001; and reduces Labor Committee's reconciliation instruction for deficit reduction in FY 1998-2001 by $5.0 billion in budget authority and outlays. (56-43)

80 5-22 Y Domenici motion to table Warner amendment: Increases Function 400 (Transportation) in FY 1999-2002 by $19.4 billion in budget authority and $12 billion in outlays. (51-49)

81 5-22 Y Domenici motion to table Bumpers amendment: Strikes Finance Committee's reconciliation instruction which requires tax cuts of not more than $20.5 billion in FY 2002 and total of $85 billion for FY 1998-2002, requiring instead that Committee raise revenues by $19.5 billion in FY 2002 and total of $30 billion in FY 1998-2002; and assumes that enacted cuts in Medicare will not offset tax cuts and that tax cuts are completely offset by closure of tax loopholes. (73-26)

82 5-22 Y Domenici motion to table Bumpers amendment: Strikes Finance Committee's reconciliation instruction which requires tax cuts of not more than $20.5 billion in FY 2002 and total of $85 billion for FY 1998-2002, and requires instead that Committee cut taxes by not more than $20.5 billion in FY 2002 and total of $20.5 billion in 1998-2002. (81-18)

* 83 5-22 N Ashcroft motion to waive Budget Act with respect to Ashcroft amendment: Creates point of order against legislation that would cause total outlays for FY 2002 and thereafter to exceed receipts for that fiscal year; requires three-fifths vote in each House to provide for specific excess of outlays over receipts or to increase public debt; requires majority vote in each House to increase revenue; and waives provisions for any fiscal year in which declaration of war is in effect, or U.S. is engaged in military conflict which causes imminent and serious threat to national security and is so declared by joint resolution, which becomes law. (41-58)

84 5-22 Y Gramm-Bond-Byrd modified amendment: Expresses sense of Senate that all revenues from Federal gasoline excise taxes should be dedicated to Highway Trust Fund. (83-16)

85 5-22 Y Lautenberg motion to table Inhofe amendment: Creates point of order against budget resolution or conference report for fiscal years after 2001 that cause unified budget deficit for current budget year or any of four succeeding fiscal years; requires three-fifths vote in Senate to sustain appeal of chair ruling on point of order and limits debate thereon to one hour; waives provisions if declaration of war is in effect, or if joint resolution, pursuant to low-growth provisions of Balanced Budget Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, has been enacted; and requires that budget levels be determined on basis of Senate Budget Committee estimates. (52-47)

86 5-23 Y McCain-Hollings amendment: Expresses sense of Senate that provisions of budget resolution assume that Congress shall take such steps as necessary to reconcile differences between estimates and actual revenues raised through spectrum auctions, and shall reduce spending by amount that revenue is below projection. (84-15)

* 87 5-23 Y Domenici-Lautenberg motion to waive Budget Act to permit consideration of Budget Resolution. (66-33)

88 5-23 N Abraham amendment: Expresses sense of Senate that provisions of budget resolution assume that future revenues which exceed resolution's revenue aggregates should be reserved for deficit reduction and/or tax cuts. (56-44)

89 5-23 N Domenici (for Coverdell) amendment (to Wellstone modified amendment): Increases budget authority for Function 500 (Education,Training, Employment, and Social Services) by $2.539 billion in FY 2000. (51-49)

90 5-23 Y Domenici motion to table Grams amendment: Decreases Function 920 (Allowances) budget authority by $165.9 billion and outlays by $133.3 billion in FY 1998-2002. (73-27)

91 5-23 N Stevens motion to table Specter-Harkin amendment: Increases Function 550 (Health) budget authority and outlays by $1.1 billion in FY 1998, and decreases Function 920 (Allowances) by same amount for same period. (63-37)

92 5-23 Y Adoption. (78-22)


Family Friendly Workplace (S. 4)
* 93 6-4 N Lott, et al., second cloture motion on modified Committee amendment. (51-47)

94 6-4 N Lott motion to adjourn. (53-44)


Supplemental Appropriations, 1997 (H.R. 1469)
95 6-5 Y Adoption of conference report. (67-31)


First Budget Resolution, 1998 (H.Con.Res. 84)
96 6-5 Y Adoption of conference report. (76-22)


Supplemental Appropriations, 1997
97 6-5 N Lott motion to adjourn. (51-45)

98 6-10 N Lott motion to adjourn. (55-37)

99 6-11 N Lott motion to adjourn. (55-44)

100 6-12 Y Passage. (78-21)


State Department Authorization, 1998-99 (H.R. 1757, Vetoed)
101 6-17 Y DeWine-Graham modified amendment: Denies visa to any individual who is known or suspected of having been involved in political killings or other illegal acts in Haiti between September 1991 and October 1994, and permits individual waivers of this prohibition for medical reasons, or for individual who cooperated with investigation. (98-0)

102 6-17 N Lugar amendment: Strikes provisions that provide for payment, over three years, of $819 million in U.S. arrears to U.N., and condition payment on specified U.N. reforms; and inserts language that provides that $819 million U.S. payment shall be paid over two years, and is limited to U.S. share of regular U.N. budget, peacekeeping operations, and specialized agencies. (25-73)

103 6-17 Y Bennett amendment: Expresses sense of Senate that Clinton Administration should enforce provisions of Iran-Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation Act of 1992 with respect to Iranian acquisition of C-802 model cruise missiles. (96-0)

104 6-17 N Feingold-Harkin-Wyden amendment: Strikes provisions that make Broadcasting Board of Governors independent agency; and requires that Board be moved, along with USIA, into State Department. (21-74)

105 6-17 Y Passage. (90-5)


Denial of Veterans' Benefits (S. 923)
106 6-18 Y Passage. (98-0)


Intelligence Authorization, 1998 (S. 858, P.L. 105-107)
107 6-19 Y Wellstone amendment: Expresses sense of Senate that tax legislation enacted this year should meet standard of fairness in its distributional impact on upper-, middle-, and lower-income taxpayers, and should not disproportionately benefit highest income taxpayers. (99-0)

108 6-19 Y Torricelli, et al., amendment: Requires that President's annual budget submission include, in unclassified form, aggregate appropriations and budget request for all U.S. intelligence and intelligence-related activities in current fiscal year. (43-56)

109 6-19 Y Passage (98-1)


DOD Authorization, 1998 (H.R. 1119, P.L. 105-85)
110 6-19 Y Feinstein-Biden amendment: Makes it unlawful for any person to teach or distribute certain information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction, knowing that such information may be used in Federal criminal offense or State or local offense affecting interstate commerce; and imposes fines and/or imprisonment of not more than 20 years. (94-0)


Budget Reconciliation, 1997 (Spending Provisions) (H.R. 2015, P.L. 105-33)
111 6-24 N Roth motion to table Kennedy amendment: Strikes section which imposes copayments for Medicare part B home health services. (59-41)

* 112 6-24 Y Roth motion to waive Budget Act to permit consideration of provision which raises eligibility age for Medicare from 65 years to 67 years. (62-38)

113 6-24 Y Roth motion to table Division I of Kennedy-Mikulski amendment: Strikes provision which provides for means testing for Medicare part B premiums. (70-30)

* 114 6-24 N Kennedy motion to waive Budget Act to permit consideration of Division II of Kennedy-Mikulski amendment: Delays implementation of means testing for Medicare part B from January 1998 to January 2000. (37-63)

* 115 6-25 N Reed motion to waive Budget Act to permit consideration of Reed substitute amendment: Maintains reported Medicare savings with following changes: retains eligibility age of 65; strikes home health copayment; adds current law with regard to Medicare balance billing protections to private fee-for-service option; and eliminates means-testing and Medical Savings Accounts. (25-75)

* 116 6-25 Y Durbin motion to waive Budget Act to permit consideration of Durbin-Wellstone-Boxer amendment: Amends Welfare Reform Act of 1996 to restore food stamp benefits to qualified legal immigrants under age 18. (48-52)

* 117 6-25 Y D'Amato motion to waive Budget Act to permit consideration of D'Amato, et al., amendment: Establishes "National Fund for Health Research" consisting of funds equal to amount of Federal savings derived from Medicare and Medicaid that exceed CBO estimated savings as of enactment. (46-54)

* 118 6-25 Y Dodd motion to waive the Budget Act to permit consideration of Dodd-Conrad amendment: Provides Medicaid eligibility for disabled children who lose SSI benefits under Welfare Reform bill. (49-51)

* 119 6-25 Y Levin motion to waive Budget Act to permit consideration of Levin-Jeffords amendment: Expands, from 12 to 24 months, vocational educational training allowed to be counted as work activity under Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. (55-45)

* 120 6-25 Y Kyl motion to waive Budget Act to permit consideration of Kyl amendment: Allows Medicare beneficiaries to enter into private contracts with physician or another health care provider who does not provide services under Medicare program. (64-35)

* 121 6-25 Y Specter motion to waive Budget Act to permit consideration of Specter amendment: Extends premium protection for low-income Medicare beneficiaries under Medicaid program. (52-48)

* 122 6-25 Y Domenici motion to waive Budget Act with respect to balance billing provisions. (62-37)

123 6-25 Y Domenici motion to table Specter amendment: Strikes provision which imposes limitation on indirect graduate medical education payments to teaching hospitals. (71-29)

124 6-25 N Domenici motion to table Mikulski-Wellstone amendment: Strikes provision which repeals current law providing for daily reimbursement rate for nursing homes under Medicaid; and directs HHS Secretary to develop new prospective payment system beginning July 1, 1998. (66-34)

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