This electronic AFL-CIO Voting Record will let you know where your lawmakers stand on such working family issues as strengthening Social Security and Medicare, freedom to join a union, workplace safety and more.
Health Care Reform (H.R. 3590)
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act expands coverage to more than 30 million Americans, puts new rules on insurance companies and provides subsidies to help middle- and low- income families and small business to purchase coverage through market exchanges. However, it falls short in several critical areas, including lack of a public health insurance plan option and a requirement that businesses pay their fair share. It also imposed a new tax on working families’ benefits (a corrections bill passed in March 2010 strengthened the fair share for business requirements and eliminated 85 percent of the tax on benefits). Republicans filibustered the bill. On Nov. 21, the Senate invoked cloture on the motion to proceed to the bill by a vote of 60-39 (R: 0–39; D: 60–0) Roll Call 353. Y=R, N=W
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| State |
Name |
Party |
Vote |
| AK |
Murkowski |
R |
(Nay )
|
| AK |
Begich |
D |
(Yea )
|
| AL |
Sessions, J. |
R |
(Nay )
|
| AL |
Shelby |
R |
(Nay )
|
| AR |
Pryor |
D |
(Yea )
|
| AR |
Lincoln |
D |
(Yea )
|
| AZ |
Kyl |
R |
(Nay )
|
| AZ |
McCain |
R |
(Nay )
|
| CA |
Feinstein |
D |
(Yea )
|
| CA |
Boxer |
D |
(Yea )
|
| CO |
Bennet |
D |
(Yea )
|
| CO |
Udall, Mark |
D |
(Yea )
|
| CO |
Salazar, |
D |
|
| CT |
Lieberman |
I |
(Yea )
|
| CT |
Dodd |
D |
(Yea )
|
| = |
Voted right way, in support of the organization-endorsed position |
| = |
Voted wrong way, in opposition to the organization-endorsed position |
| = |
Vote not counted |
