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Senate · Roll call 252 · 1st session · July 24, 2015 A vote to begin Senate consideration of H.R. 22, a bill on how TRICARE and Veterans Administration coverage counts under the employer mandate in the Affordable Care Act.
- Question
- On the Motion to Proceed
- Official record
- Senate roll call 252, 114th Congress, 1st session
- Capitol Lens ID
- 114-s252, used in this page's address. It numbers every Senate roll call of the 114th Congress in order, so it differs from the official number, which restarts each session.
- Bill
- H.R. 22, FAST Act
How each party voted
Party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides.
About this vote
A motion to proceed asks the Senate to take up a measure, and a Yes vote would agree to begin considering it. The measure is a bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 so that employees with health coverage under TRICARE or the Veterans Administration are not taken into account in determining which employers the employer mandate under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act applies to.
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Summary by the Congressional Research Service
Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act or the FAST Act DIVISION A--SURFACE TRANSPORTATION (Sec.
How each member voted
| Member | Seat | Party | Their vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dan Sullivan | AK | Republican | Yes |
| Lisa Murkowski | AK | Republican | No |
| Jeff Sessions | AL | Republican | Yes |
| Richard C. Shelby | AL | Republican | No |
| John Boozman | AR | Republican | Did not vote |
| Tom Cotton | AR | Republican | Did not vote |
| Jeff Flake | AZ | Republican | Did not vote |
| John McCain | AZ | Republican | Yes |
| Barbara Boxer | CA | Democrat | Yes |
| Dianne Feinstein | CA | Democrat | Yes |
| Cory Gardner | CO | Republican | Yes |
| Michael F. Bennet | CO | Democrat | No |
| Christopher Murphy | CT | Democrat | No |
| Richard Blumenthal | CT | Democrat | No |
| Christopher A. Coons | DE | Democrat | Did not vote |
| Thomas R. Carper | DE | Democrat | Did not vote |
| Bill Nelson | FL | Democrat | Did not vote |
| Marco Rubio | FL | Republican | No |
| David Perdue | GA | Republican | Yes |
| Johnny Isakson | GA | Republican | Yes |
| Brian Schatz | HI | Democrat | Yes |
| Mazie K. Hirono | HI | Democrat | No |
| Chuck Grassley | IA | Republican | Yes |
| Joni Ernst | IA | Republican | Yes |
| James E. Risch | ID | Republican | Yes |
| Mike Crapo | ID | Republican | Yes |
| Mark Kirk | IL | Republican | Yes |
| Richard J. Durbin | IL | Democrat | Yes |
| Daniel Coats | IN | Republican | Yes |
| Joe Donnelly | IN | Democrat | Yes |
| Jerry Moran | KS | Republican | Did not vote |
| Pat Roberts | KS | Republican | Yes |
| Mitch McConnell | KY | Republican | Yes |
| Rand Paul | KY | Republican | No |
| Bill Cassidy | LA | Republican | Yes |
| David Vitter | LA | Republican | Did not vote |
| Edward J. Markey | MA | Democrat | Did not vote |
| Elizabeth Warren | MA | Democrat | No |
| Barbara A. Mikulski | MD | Democrat | No |
| Benjamin L. Cardin | MD | Democrat | No |
| Angus S. King, Jr. | ME | Independent | Yes |
| Susan M. Collins | ME | Republican | Yes |
| Debbie Stabenow | MI | Democrat | Yes |
| Gary C. Peters | MI | Democrat | Yes |
| Al Franken | MN | Democrat | Yes |
| Amy Klobuchar | MN | Democrat | Yes |
| Claire McCaskill | MO | Democrat | Did not vote |
| Roy Blunt | MO | Republican | Did not vote |
| Roger F. Wicker | MS | Republican | Yes |
| Thad Cochran | MS | Republican | Yes |
| Jon Tester | MT | Democrat | Yes |
| Steve Daines | MT | Republican | Yes |
| Richard Burr | NC | Republican | Yes |
| Thom Tillis | NC | Republican | Yes |
| Heidi Heitkamp | ND | Democrat | Yes |
| John Hoeven | ND | Republican | Yes |
| Ben Sasse | NE | Republican | No |
| Deb Fischer | NE | Republican | Yes |
| Jeanne Shaheen | NH | Democrat | Yes |
| Kelly Ayotte | NH | Republican | Yes |
| Cory A. Booker | NJ | Democrat | Did not vote |
| Robert Menendez | NJ | Democrat | Did not vote |
| Martin Heinrich | NM | Democrat | No |
| Tom Udall | NM | Democrat | No |
| Dean Heller | NV | Republican | Did not vote |
| Harry Reid | NV | Democrat | No |
| Charles E. Schumer | NY | Democrat | Did not vote |
| Kirsten E. Gillibrand | NY | Democrat | Did not vote |
| Rob Portman | OH | Republican | Did not vote |
| Sherrod Brown | OH | Democrat | No |
| James Lankford | OK | Republican | Yes |
| James M. Inhofe | OK | Republican | Did not vote |
| Jeff Merkley | OR | Democrat | No |
| Ron Wyden | OR | Democrat | No |
| Patrick J. Toomey | PA | Republican | Did not vote |
| Robert P. Casey, Jr. | PA | Democrat | No |
| Jack Reed | RI | Democrat | No |
| Sheldon Whitehouse | RI | Democrat | Yes |
| Lindsey Graham | SC | Republican | Yes |
| Tim Scott | SC | Republican | No |
| John Thune | SD | Republican | Yes |
| Mike Rounds | SD | Republican | Yes |
| Bob Corker | TN | Republican | Did not vote |
| Lamar Alexander | TN | Republican | Did not vote |
| John Cornyn | TX | Republican | Yes |
| Ted Cruz | TX | Republican | No |
| Mike Lee | UT | Republican | No |
| Orrin G. Hatch | UT | Republican | Yes |
| Mark R. Warner | VA | Democrat | No |
| Tim Kaine | VA | Democrat | No |
| Bernard Sanders | VT | Independent | Did not vote |
| Patrick J. Leahy | VT | Democrat | Yes |
| Maria Cantwell | WA | Democrat | No |
| Patty Murray | WA | Democrat | Did not vote |
| Ron Johnson | WI | Republican | Yes |
| Tammy Baldwin | WI | Democrat | Yes |
| Joe Manchin, III | WV | Democrat | Yes |
| Shelley Moore Capito | WV | Republican | Yes |
| John Barrasso | WY | Republican | Yes |
| Michael B. Enzi | WY | Republican | Yes |