Patient-Centered Outcomes Amendment Fails in Senate Finance Committee

Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) offered an amendment to strike the patient-centered outcomes program in the Senate Finance health care overhaul bill. It failed on a mostly party-line vote (Olympia Snowe defected).

Roberts Amendment # D4 to Title III, Subtitle F, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Act of 2009



Short Title: To protect patients and doctors



Description of Amendment: Strike Title III, Subtitle F, Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Act of 2009



COST: $0


OFFSET: n/a

Republicans
CHUCK GRASSLEY -yes
ORRIN G. HATCH -yes
OLYMPIA J. SNOWE -no
JON KYL -yes
JIM BUNNING -yes
MIKE CRAPO -yes
PAT ROBERTS -yes
JOHN ENSIGN -yes
MIKE ENZI -yes
JOHN CORNYN -yes

Democrats
MAX BAUCUS -no
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER -no
KENT CONRAD -no
JEFF BINGAMAN -no
JOHN F. KERRY -no
BLANCHE L. LINCOLN -no
RON WYDEN -no
CHARLES E. SCHUMER -no
DEBBIE STABENOW -no
MARIA CANTWELL -no
BILL NELSON -no
ROBERT MENENDEZ -no
THOMAS CARPER -no

Not Agreed to (9-14)