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National
Key Vote
Eliminating Adjustments to Medicare Rates of Payment
Project Vote Smart's Synopsis:
Vote on a motion to invoke cloture on a bill that, beginning in 2010, repeals the Sustainable Growth Rate formula used to to adjust Medicare rates of payment to physicians, including a requirement that rates be reduced if Medicare expenditures exceeded specific targets set by the Balanced Budget Act of 1997.
NOTE: INVOKING CLOTURE REQUIRES A THREE-FIFTHS MAJORITY OF THE SENATE. IT IS NOT A VOTE ON THE PASSAGE OF THE PIECE OF LEGISLATION, BUT RATHER LIMITS FURTHER DEBATE TO 30 HOURS. CLOTURE IS TYPICALLY USED TO END A FILIBUSTER. A FAILED CLOTURE VOTE OFTEN PREVENTS THE LEGISLATION FROM EVER COMING TO A VOTE.
Official Title of Legislation:
S 1776: A bill to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to provide for the update under the Medicare physician fee schedule for years beginning with 2010 and to sunset the application of the sustainable growth rate formula, and for other purposes.
Link to Legislation: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:s1776:
Senate Cloture Vote: 10/21/2009 : Cloture Not Invoked 47 - 53 (Record Vote Number 325)
NOTE: INVOKING CLOTURE REQUIRES A THREE-FIFTHS MAJORITY OF THE SENATE. IT IS NOT A VOTE ON THE PASSAGE OF THE PIECE OF LEGISLATION, BUT RATHER LIMITS FURTHER DEBATE TO 30 HOURS. CLOTURE IS TYPICALLY USED TO END A FILIBUSTER. A FAILED CLOTURE VOTE OFTEN PREVENTS THE LEGISLATION FROM EVER COMING TO A VOTE.
Sponsor: Sen. Stabenow, Debbie (D-MI)
Cosponsors:
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