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Health Care Reform/Drug Reimportation (H.R. 3590)
Date: Dec 15, 2009
Senate Roll call: 377 Failed:
51-47 AFL-CIO Position: Support
Vote:
17
Votes For:
51
Votes Against:
47
Not Voting:
0
An amendment to the health care reform bill would give American consumers, pharmacists and drug wholesalers access to U.S. Food and Drug Administration-approved medicines sold in other major industrialized countries at a fraction of the U.S. price. The amendment needed 60 votes to pass. It failed Dec. 15 by a vote of 51-48 (R: 23-17; D: 28–31) Roll Call 377. Y=R, N=W
(Yea )
(Nay )
