Key Vote Alert “NO” on H.R. 1425, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act

Scott Parkinson | June 29, 2020

Club for Growth opposes the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act. The legislation will be considered soon in the United States House of Representatives. The result of the vote will be included in the Club for Growth Foundation’s 2020 Congressional Scorecard.

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Enhancement Act doubles down on the failures of Obamacare and limits choice and competition in the health care marketplace for consumers. It raids Medicare by nearly $500 billion in order to finance the enhancement by fixing prices in prescription medications. But rather than using the money from this price-fixing socialist scheme to improve Medicare’s solvency, the money is redirected into Obamacare so that healthy, able-bodied people can remain on Medicaid, while forcing states to keep ineligible Medicaid recipients on its Medicaid rolls. At a time when American innovation is needed, price-fixing would cause many drug-manufactures to produce less, and reduce choice for consumers. Moreover, the bill provides for a $10 billion annual permanent bailout of health insurers.

The solution to America’s health care woes does not lie within an enhancement of government’s role. Instead, Congress should take steps to remove government from the health care decisions that should be between a doctor and patient. If Congress does anything, it should take action to expand choice and competition by taking steps to codify important action taken by the current administration that makes available Short-Term Limited Duration plans (STLDs), Association Health Plans (AHPs), and health care reimbursement accounts (HRAs). But this legislation actually repeals STLDs.

Across America, people have been saddled with soaring premiums and have been victimized by low-quality health care due to lack of competition. Make no mistake, liberals in Congress desperately seek to enact a single-payer health care system as part of their Green New Deal. Their goal is control of individuals’ health care decisions. And legislation like this that only furthers that goal should be soundly rejected by anyone that cares about preserving quality and competition in health care.

Club for Growth Foundation’s Congressional Scorecard for the 116th Congress provides a comprehensive rating of how well or how poorly each member of Congress supports pro-growth, free-market policies and will be distributed to the public.

Club Position

Required for Majority

1/2

Vote Results

Passed

Vote Number

124

Vote Date

June 29, 2020

Vote Counts

YEAs:

234

NAYs:

179

Not Voting:

Name

State

Party

Vote Position

Don Young

Nay

Robert Aderholt

Nay

Mo Brooks

Nay

Bradley Byrne

Nay

Gary Palmer

Nay

Martha Roby

Abs

Mike Rogers

Nay

Terri Sewell

Yea

Rick Crawford

Nay

French Hill

Nay

Bruce Westerman

Nay

Steve Womack

Nay

Andy Biggs

Nay

Ruben Gallego

Yea

Paul Gosar

Abs

Raul Grijalva

Yea

Ann Kirkpatrick

Yea

Debbie Lesko

Nay

Tom O'Halleran

Yea

David Schweikert

Nay

Greg Stanton

Yea

Pete Aguilar

Yea

Nanette Barragan

Yea

Karen Bass

Yea

Ami Bera

Yea

Julia Brownley

Yea

Ken Calvert

Nay

Salud Carbajal

Yea

Tony Cardenas

Yea

Judy Chu

Yea

Gil Cisneros

Yea

Paul Cook

Nay

Luis Correa

Yea

Jim Costa

Yea

TJ Cox

Yea

Susan Davis

Yea

Mark DeSaulnier

Yea

Anna Eshoo

Yea

John Garamendi

Yea

Mike Garcia

Nay

Jimmy Gomez

Yea

Josh Harder

Yea

Jared Huffman

Yea

Ro Khanna

Yea

Doug LaMalfa

Nay

Barbara Lee

Yea

Mike Levin

Yea

Ted Lieu

Yea

Zoe Lofgren

Yea

Alan Lowenthal

Yea

Doris Matsui

Yea

Kevin McCarthy

Nay

Tom McClintock

Nay

Jerry McNerney

Yea

Grace Napolitano

Yea

Devin Nunes

Nay

Jimmy Panetta

Yea

Nancy Pelosi

Yea

Scott Peters

Yea

Katie Porter

Yea

Harley Rouda

Yea

Lucille Roybal-Allard

Yea

Raul Ruiz

Yea

Linda Sanchez

Yea

Adam Schiff

Yea

Brad Sherman

Yea

Jackie Speier

Yea

Eric Swalwell

Yea

Mark Takano

Yea

Mike Thompson

Yea

Norma Torres

Yea

Juan Vargas

Yea

Maxine Waters

Yea

Ken Buck

Nay

Jason Crow

Yea

Diana DeGette

Yea

Doug Lamborn

Nay

Joseph Neguse

Yea

Ed Perlmutter

Yea

Scott Tipton

Nay

Joe Courtney

Yea

Rosa DeLauro

Yea

Jahana Hayes

Yea

James Himes

Yea

John Larson

Yea

Lisa Rochester

Yea

Gus Bilirakis

Nay

Vern Buchanan

Nay

Kathy Castor

Yea

Charlie Crist

Yea

Val Demings

Yea

Ted Deutch

Yea

Mario Diaz-Balart

Nay

Neal Dunn

Nay

Lois Frankel

Yea

Matt Gaetz

Nay

Alcee Hastings

Yea

Al Lawson

Yea

Brian Mast

Nay

Debbie Mucarsel-Powell

Yea

Stephanie Murphy

Yea

Bill Posey

Nay

Francis Rooney

Abs

John Rutherford

Nay

Donna Shalala

Yea

Darren Soto

Yea

Ross Spano

Nay

Greg Steube

Nay

Michael Waltz

Nay

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Yea

Daniel Webster

Nay

Frederica Wilson

Yea

Ted Yoho

Nay

Rick Allen

Nay

Sanford Bishop

Yea

Buddy Carter

Nay

Doug Collins

Nay

Drew Ferguson

Nay

Tom Graves

Nay

Jody Hice

Nay

Henry Johnson

Yea

John Lewis

Yea

Barry Loudermilk

Abs

Lucy McBath

Yea

Austin Scott

Abs

David Scott

Yea

Rob Woodall

Nay

Ed Case

Yea

Tulsi Gabbard

Yea

Cindy Axne

Yea

Abby Finkenauer

Yea

Steve King

Abs

David Loebsack

Yea

Russ Fulcher

Nay

Mike Simpson

Nay

Mike Bost

Nay

Cheri Bustos

Yea

Sean Casten

Yea

Rodney Davis

Nay

Danny Davis

Yea

Bill Foster

Yea

Jesus Garcia

Yea

Robin Kelly

Yea

Adam Kinzinger

Nay

Raja Krishnamoorthi

Yea

Darin LaHood

Nay

Daniel Lipinski

Yea

Mike Quigley

Yea

Bobby Rush

Yea

Janice Schakowsky

Yea

Bradley Schneider

Yea

John Shimkus

Nay

Lauren Underwood

Yea

James Baird

Nay

Jim Banks

Nay

Susan Brooks

Nay

Larry Bucshon

Nay

Andre Carson

Yea

Trey Hollingsworth

Nay

Greg Pence

Nay

Peter Visclosky

Yea

Jackie Walorski

Nay

Sharice Davids

Yea

Ron Estes

Nay

Roger Marshall

Nay

Steve Watkins

Nay

Andy Barr

Nay

James Comer

Nay

Brett Guthrie

Abs

Thomas Massie

Nay

Hal Rogers

Nay

John Yarmuth

Yea

Ralph Abraham

Abs

Garret Graves

Nay

Clay Higgins

Nay

Mike Johnson

Nay

Cedric Richmond

Yea

Steve Scalise

Nay

Katherine Clark

Yea

William Keating

Yea

Joseph Kennedy

Yea

Stephen Lynch

Yea

James McGovern

Yea

Seth Moulton

Yea

Richard Neal

Yea

Ayanna Pressley

Yea

Lori Trahan

Yea

Anthony Brown

Yea

Andy Harris

Nay

Steny Hoyer

Yea

Kweisi Mfume

Yea

Jamie Raskin

Yea

C.A. Ruppersberger

Yea

John Sarbanes

Yea

David Trone

Yea

Jared Golden

Yea

Chellie Pingree

Yea

Justin Amash

Nay

Jack Bergman

Nay

Debbie Dingell

Yea

Bill Huizenga

Nay

Daniel Kildee

Yea

Brenda Lawrence

Yea

Andy Levin

Yea

Paul Mitchell

Nay

John Moolenaar

Nay

Elissa Slotkin

Yea

Haley Stevens

Yea

Rashida Tlaib

Yea

Fred Upton

Nay

Tim Walberg

Nay

Angela Craig

Yea

Tom Emmer

Abs

James Hagedorn

Nay

Betty McCollum

Yea

Ilhan Omar

Yea

Collin Peterson

Nay

Dean Phillips

Yea

Pete Stauber

Nay

Lacy Clay

Yea

Emanuel Cleaver

Yea

Sam Graves

Nay

Vicky Hartzler

Nay

Billy Long

Nay

Blaine Luetkemeyer

Nay

Jason Smith

Nay

Ann Wagner

Nay

Michael Guest

Nay

Trent Kelly

Nay

Steven Palazzo

Abs

Bennie Thompson

Yea

Greg Gianforte

Nay

Alma Adams

Yea

Dan Bishop

Nay

Ted Budd

Nay

G.K. Butterfield

Yea

Virginia Foxx

Nay

George Holding

Nay

Richard Hudson

Nay

Patrick McHenry

Nay

Greg Murphy

Nay

David Price

Yea

David Rouzer

Nay

Mark Walker

Nay

Kelly Armstrong

Nay

Don Bacon

Nay

Jeff Fortenberry

Nay

Adrian Smith

Nay

Ann Kuster

Yea

Christopher Pappas

Yea

Josh Gottheimer

Yea

Andy Kim

Yea

Tom Malinowski

Yea

Donald Norcross

Yea

Frank Pallone

Yea

Bill Pascrell

Yea

Donald Payne

Yea

Mikie Sherrill

Yea

Albio Sires

Yea

Christopher Smith

Nay

Jeff Van Drew

Yea

Bonnie Watson Coleman

Yea

Debra Haaland

Yea

Ben Lujan

Yea

Xochitl Torres Small

Yea

Mark Amodei

Nay

Steven Horsford

Yea

Suzanne Lee

Yea

Dina Titus

Yea

Anthony Brindisi

Yea

Yvette Clarke

Yea

Antonio Delgado

Yea

Eliot Engel

Yea

Adriano Espaillat

Yea

Brian Higgins

Yea

Hakeem Jeffries

Yea

John Katko

Abs

Peter King

Nay

Nita Lowey

Yea

Sean Maloney

Yea

Carolyn Maloney

Yea

Gregory Meeks

Yea

Grace Meng

Yea

Joseph Morelle

Yea

Jerrold Nadler

Yea

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Yea

Tom Reed

Nay

Kathleen Rice

Yea

Max Rose

Yea

Jose Serrano

Yea

Elise Stefanik

Nay

Thomas Suozzi

Yea

Paul Tonko

Yea

Nydia Velazquez

Yea

Lee Zeldin

Nay

Troy Balderson

Nay

Joyce Beatty

Yea

Steve Chabot

Nay

Warren Davidson

Nay

Marcia Fudge

Yea

Bob Gibbs

Nay

Anthony Gonzalez

Nay

Bill Johnson

Nay

Jim Jordan

Nay

David Joyce

Abs

Marcy Kaptur

Yea

Bob Latta

Nay

Tim Ryan

Yea

Steve Stivers

Nay

Michael Turner

Nay

Brad Wenstrup

Nay

Tom Cole

Nay

Kevin Hern

Nay

Kendra Horn

Yea

Frank Lucas

Nay

Markwayne Mullin

Nay

Earl Blumenauer

Yea

Suzanne Bonamici

Yea

Peter DeFazio

Yea

Kurt Schrader

Yea

Greg Walden

Nay

Brendan Boyle

Yea

Matthew Cartwright

Yea

Madeleine Dean

Yea

Michael Doyle

Yea

Dwight Evans

Yea

Brian Fitzpatrick

Yea

Chrissy Houlahan

Yea

John Joyce

Nay

Fred Keller

Nay

Mike Kelly

Nay

Conor Lamb

Yea

Dan Meuser

Nay

Scott Perry

Nay

Guy Reschenthaler

Nay

Mary Scanlon

Yea

Lloyd Smucker

Nay

Glenn Thompson

Nay

Susan Wild

Yea

David Cicilline

Yea

James Langevin

Yea

James Clyburn

Yea

Joe Cunningham

Yea

Jeff Duncan

Nay

Ralph Norman

Nay

Tom Rice

Nay

William Timmons

Nay

Joe Wilson

Nay

Dusty Johnson

Nay

Tim Burchett

Nay

Steve Cohen

Yea

Jim Cooper

Yea

Scott DesJarlais

Nay

Chuck Fleischmann

Nay

Mark Green

Nay

David Kustoff

Nay

David Roe

Nay

John Rose

Nay

Colin Allred

Yea

Jodey Arrington

Nay

Brian Babin

Nay

Kevin Brady

Nay

Michael Burgess

Nay

John Carter

Nay

Joaquin Castro

Yea

Michael Cloud

Nay

K. Michael Conaway

Nay

Dan Crenshaw

Nay

Henry Cuellar

Yea

Lloyd Doggett

Yea

Veronica Escobar

Yea

Lizzie Fletcher

Yea

Bill Flores

Nay

Sylvia Garcia

Yea

Louie Gohmert

Nay

Vicente Gonzalez

Yea

Lance Gooden

Nay

Kay Granger

Abs

Al Green

Yea

Will Hurd

Nay

Sheila Jackson-Lee

Yea

Eddie Johnson

Yea

Kenny Marchant

Abs

Michael McCaul

Nay

Pete Olson

Nay

Chip Roy

Nay

Van Taylor

Nay

Mac Thornberry

Nay

Marc Veasey

Yea

Filemon Vela

Yea

Randy Weber

Abs

Roger Williams

Nay

Ron Wright

Nay

Rob Bishop

Nay

John Curtis

Abs

Ben McAdams

Yea

Chris Stewart

Nay

Don Beyer

Yea

Ben Cline

Nay

Gerald Connolly

Yea

H. Morgan Griffith

Nay

Elaine Luria

Yea

Donald McEachin

Yea

Denver Riggleman

Nay

Robert Scott

Yea

Abigail Spanberger

Yea

Jennifer Wexton

Yea

Robert Wittman

Nay

Peter Welch

Yea

Suzan DelBene

Yea

Denny Heck

Yea

Jaime Herrera Beutler

Nay

Pramila Jayapal

Yea

Derek Kilmer

Yea

Rick Larsen

Yea

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Abs

Dan Newhouse

Nay

Kim Schrier

Yea

Adam Smith

Yea

Mike Gallagher

Abs

Glenn Grothman

Nay

Ron Kind

Yea

Gwen Moore

Yea

Mark Pocan

Yea

F. James Sensenbrenner

Nay

Bryan Steil

Nay

Tom Tiffany

Nay

David McKinley

Nay

Carol Miller

Nay

Alex Mooney

Nay

Liz Cheney

Nay