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Senator John Forbes Kerry voted YES.
Vote to allow consideration of an amendment to provide the bill's $1.5 billion for low-income Medicare recipient premium assistance through the Medicaid program, and not the bill's state block grant program.
S 947: The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 [Budget Reconciliation - Spending]
Vote on a procedural motion to waive the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to allow consideration of an amendment that would provide the $1.5 billion included in the bill to assist low-income Medicare beneficiaries with their Medicare Part B premiums through expansion of the Medicaid program, rather than through the state block grant program included in the bill.
Amendment offered by Specter, R-PA.
(Motion to waive the Budget Act rejected 52-48 on 6/25/97 [3/5ths vote required])
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Senator John Forbes Kerry voted YES.
Vote to allow consideration of an amendment to reinstate food stamps for the children of legal immigrants.
S 947: The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 [Budget Reconciliation - Spending]
Vote on a procedural motion to waive the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to allow for consideration of an amendment to provide food stamps for the children of legal immigrants to the U.S. [HR 3734, 1996's welfare reform law, ended food stamp eligibility for the children of legal immigrants.]
Amendment offered by Durbin, D-IL.
(Motion to waive the Budget Act rejected 48-52 on 6/25/97 [3/5ths vote required])
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Senator John Forbes Kerry voted NO.
Vote to table an amendment to delete a program for school breakfast program startups.
S 1956: The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act
Vote on a motion to table, or kill, an amendment that would delete the provisions in the bill that eliminate the School Breakfast Startup and Expansion Program, a program that makes startup grants for initiating or expanding school breakfast or summer food programs.
Lugar, R-IN, motion to table Harkin, D-IA, amendment.
(Tabling motion agreed to 56-43 on 7/23/96)
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Key Vote
Non-Cash Vouchers
Bill Number: S 1956
Issue: Welfare and Poverty Issues
Date: 07/19/1996
Sponsor: Motion introduced by Breaux, D-LA.
Roll Call Number: 0205
Motion to waive rejected; 3/5ths vote required
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Senator John Forbes Kerry voted YES.
Vote on a procedural motion to allow consideration of an amendment to allow states to use block grant funds to provide non-cash vouchers to families that have used up their welfare eligibility.
S 1956: The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act
Vote on a procedural motion to waive the Budget Act of 1974 to allow consideration of an amendment that would allow states to use federal block grant funds to provide non-cash vouchers to families that have used
up their five years of eligibility for cash assistance, based on the state's determination of the needs of the family's children. If a state implemented a welfare assistance time limit less than the five years provided for in the bill, the amendment would require the state to provide the non-cash vouchers, based on the state's determination of the needs of the family's children.
Motion introduced by Breaux, D-LA.
(Motion to waive rejected 51-47 on 7/19/96; 3/5ths vote required)
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