Holding Congress Accountable for Health Care Votes
En español | As the new Trump administration and Congress came to power in early 2017, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the healthcare law better known as Obamacare, was targeted for dismantling. AARP vigorously opposed the effort, noting that the proposed replacement included an “age tax” that could have added as much as $13,000 a year to health insurance costs for older Americans. It also would have discriminated against people who already had health conditions like cancer or diabetes.
In the end, the ACA survived but narrowly. Since then, the Trump administration has chipped away at the ACA through regulatory action the administration.
To remind yourself how your lawmakers voted, we’ve compiled a list of how the House narrowly voted to repeal the ACA and how by a razor-thin margin, the Senate defeated a bill to dismantle the ACA.
U.S. House of Representatives
On May 4, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Health Care Act by the razor-thin margin of 217-213. Those voting “yes” were voting to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Senate did not adopt this legislation, so it never became law. Here’s how House members voted:
Voted Yes
Alaska
AK-1 Don Young
Alabama
AL-1 Bradley Byrne
AL-2 Martha Roby
AL-3 Mike D. Rogers
AL-4 Robert B. Aderholt
AL-5 Mo Brooks
AL-6 Gary Palmer
Arkansas
AR-1 Rick Crawford
AR-2 French Hill
AR-3 Steve Womack
AR-4 Bruce Westerman
Arizona
AZ-2 Martha E. McSally
AZ-4 Paul Gosar
AZ-6 David Schweikert
AZ-8 Trent Franks
California
CA-1 Doug LaMalfa
CA-4 Tom McClintock
CA-8 Paul Cook
CA-10 Jeff Denham
CA-21 David Valadao
CA-22 Devin Nunes
CA-23 Kevin McCarthy
CA-25 Steve Knight
CA-39 Ed Royce
CA-42 Ken Calvert
CA-45 Mimi Walters
CA-48 Dana Rohrabacher
CA-49 Darrell Issa
CA-50 Duncan Hunter
Colorado
CO-3 Scott Tipton
CO-4 Ken Buck
CO-5 Doug Lamborn
Florida
FL-1 Matt Gaetz
FL-2 Neal Dunn
FL-3 Ted Yoho
FL-4 John Rutherford
FL-6 Ron DeSantis
FL-8 Bill Posey
FL-11 Daniel Webster
FL-12 Gus Bilirakis
FL-15 Dennis A. Ross
FL-16 Vern Buchanan
FL-17 Tom Rooney
FL-18 Brian Mast
FL-19 Francis Rooney
FL-25 Mario Diaz-Balart
FL-26 Carlos Curbelo
Georgia
GA-1 Earl L. “Buddy” Carter
GA-3 Drew Ferguson
GA-7 Rob Woodall
GA-8 Austin Scott
GA-9 Doug Collins
GA-10 Jody B. Hice
GA-11 Barry Loudermilk
GA-12 Rick W. Allen
GA-14 Tom Graves
Iowa
IA-1 Rod Blum
IA-3 David Young
IA-4 Steve King
Idaho
ID-1 Raúl R. Labrador
ID-2 Mike Simpson
Illinois
IL-6 Peter Roskam
IL-12 Mike Bost
IL-13 Rodney Davis
IL-14 Randy Hultgren
IL-15 John Shimkus
IL-16 Adam Kinzinger
IL-18 Darin M. LaHood
Indiana
IN-2 Jackie Walorski
IN-3 Jim Banks
IN-4 Todd Rokita
IN-5 Susan W. Brooks
IN-6 Luke Messer
IN-8 Larry Bucshon
IN-9 Trey Hollingsworth
Kansas
KS-1 Roger Marshall
KS-2 Lynn Jenkins
KS-3 Kevin Yoder
KS-4 Ron Estes
Kentucky
KY-1 James Comer
KY-2 Brett Guthrie
KY-5 Harold Rogers
KY-6 Andy Barr
Louisiana
LA-1 Steve Scalise
LA-3 Clay Higgins
LA-4 Mike Johnson
LA-5 Ralph Abraham
LA-6 Garret Graves
Maryland
MD-1 Andy Harris
Maine
ME-2 Bruce Poliquin
Michigan
MI-1 Jack Bergman
MI-2 Bill Huizenga
MI-3 Justin Amash
MI-4 John Moolenaar
MI-6 Fred Upton
MI-7 Tim Walberg
MI-8 Mike Bishop
MI-10 Paul Mitchell
MI-11 Dave Trott
Minnesota
MN-2 Jason Lewis
MN-3 Erik Paulsen
MN-6 Tom Emmer
Missouri
MO-2 Ann Wagner
MO-3 Blaine Luetkemeyer
MO-4 Vicky Hartzler
MO-6 Sam Graves
MO-7 Billy Long
MO-8 Jason Smith
Mississippi
MS-1 Trent Kelly
MS-3 Gregg Harper
MS-4 Steven M. Palazzo
Nebraska
NE-1 Jeff Fortenberry
NE-2 Don Bacon
NE-3 Adrian Smith
Nevada
NV-2 Mark Amodei
New Jersey
NJ-3 Tom MacArthur
NJ-11 Rodney Frelinghuysen
New Mexico
NM-2 Steve Pearce
New York
NY-1 Lee Zeldin
NY-2 Peter T. King
NY-19 John J. Faso
NY-21 Elise Stefanik
NY-22 Claudia Tenney
NY-23 Tom Reed
NY-27 Chris Collins
North Carolina
NC-2 George Holding
NC-5 Virginia Foxx
NC-6 Mark Walker
NC-7 David Rouzer
NC-8 Richard Hudson
NC-9 Robert Pittenger
NC-10 Patrick T. McHenry
NC-11 Mark Meadows
NC-13 Ted Budd
North Dakota
ND-1 Kevin Cramer
Ohio
OH-1 Steve Chabot
OH-2 Brad Wenstrup
OH-4 Jim Jordan
OH-5 Bob Latta
OH-6 Bill Johnson
OH-7 Bob Gibbs
OH-8 Warren Davidson
OH-12 Pat Tiberi
OH-15 Steve Stivers
OH-16 James B. Renacci
Oklahoma
OK-1 Jim Bridenstine
OK-2 Markwayne Mullin
OK-3 Frank D. Lucas
OK-4 Tom Cole
OK-5 Steve Russell
Oregon
OR-2 Greg Walden
Pennsylvania
PA-3 Mike Kelly
PA-4 Scott Perry
PA-5 Glenn Thompson
PA-9 Bill Shuster
PA-10 Tom Marino
PA-11 Lou Barletta
PA-12 Keith Rothfus
PA-16 Lloyd K. Smucker
PA-18 Tim Murphy
South Carolina
SC-1 Mark Sanford
SC-2 Joe Wilson
SC-3 Jeff Duncan
SC-4 Trey Gowdy
SC-7 Tom Rice
South Dakota
SD-1 Kristi Noem
Tennessee
TN-1 Phil Roe
TN-2 John J. Duncan Jr.
TN-3 Chuck Fleischmann
TN-4 Scott DesJarlais
TN-6 Diane Black
TN-7 Marsha Blackburn
TN-8 David Kustoff
Texas
TX-1 Louie Gohmert
TX-2 Ted Poe
TX-3 Sam Johnson
TX-4 John Ratcliffe
TX-5 Jeb Hensarling
TX-6 Joe L. Barton
TX-7 John Culberson
TX-8 Kevin Brady
TX-10 Michael McCaul
TX-11 K. Michael Conaway
TX-12 Kay Granger
TX-13 Mac Thornberry
TX-14 Randy Weber
TX-17 Bill Flores
TX-19 Jodey Arrington
TX-21 Lamar Smith
TX-22 Pete Olson
TX-24 Kenny Marchant
TX-25 Roger Williams
TX-26 Michael C. Burgess
TX-27 Blake Farenthold
TX-31 John Carter
TX-32 Pete Sessions
TX-36 Brian Babin
Utah
UT-1 Rob Bishop
UT-2 Chris Stewart
UT-3 Jason Chaffetz
UT-4 Mia Love
Virginia
VA-1 Rob Wittman
VA-2 Scott Taylor
VA-5 Tom Garrett
VA-6 Robert W. Goodlatte
VA-7 Dave Brat
VA-9 Morgan Griffith
Washington
WA-5 Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Wisconsin
WI-1 Paul D. Ryan
WI-5 Jim Sensenbrenner
WI-6 Glenn Grothman
WI-7 Sean P. Duffy
WI-8 Mike Gallagher
West Virginia
WV-1 David B. McKinley
WV-2 Alex X. Mooney
WV-3 Evan H. Jenkins
Wyoming
WY-1 Liz Cheney
Voted No
Alabama
AL-7 Terri Sewell
Arizona
AZ-1 Tom O’Halleran
AZ-3 Raul Grijalva
AZ-5 Andy Biggs
AZ-7 Ruben Gallego
AZ-9 Kyrsten Sinema
California
CA-2 Jared Huffman
CA-3 John Garamendi
CA-5 Mike Thompson
CA-6 Doris Matsui
CA-7 Ami Bera
CA-9 Jerry McNerney
CA-11 Mark DeSaulnier
CA-12 Nancy Pelosi
CA-13 Barbara Lee
CA-14 Jackie Speier
CA-15 Eric Swalwell
CA-16 Jim Costa
CA-17 Ro Khanna
CA-18 Anna Eshoo
CA-19 Zoe Lofgren
CA-20 Jimmy Panetta
CA-24 Salud Carbajal
CA-26 Julia Brownley
CA-27 Judy Chu
CA-28 Adam Schiff
CA-29 Tony Cardenas
CA-30 Brad Sherman
CA-31 Pete Aguilar
CA-32 Grace Napolitano
CA-33 Ted Lieu
CA-35 Norma Torres
CA-36 Raul Ruiz
CA-37 Karen Bass
CA-38 Linda Sanchez
CA-40 Lucille Roybal-Allard
CA-41 Mark Takano
CA-43 Maxine Waters
CA-44 Nanette Barragan
CA-46 Lou Correa
CA-47 Alan Lowenthal
CA-51 Juan Vargas
CA-52 Scott Peters
CA-53 Susan Davis
Colorado
CO-1 Diana DeGette
CO-2 Jared Polis
CO-6 Mike Coffman
CO-7 Ed Perlmutter
Connecticut
CT-1 John B. Larson
CT-2 Joe Courtney
CT-3 Rosa DeLauro
CT-4 Jim Hines
CT-5 Elizabeth Esty
Delaware
DE-1 Lisa Blunt Rochester
Florida
FL-5 Al Lawson
FL-7 Stephanie Murphy
FL-9 Darren Soto
FL-10 Val Demings
FL-13 Charlie Crist
FL-14 Kathy Castor
FL-20 Alcee Hastings
FL-21 Lois Frankel
FL-22 Ted Deutch
FL-23 Debbie Wasserman Schultz
FL-24 Frederica Wilson
FL-27 Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Georgia
GA-2 Sanford Bishop
GA-4 Hank Johnson
GA-5 John Lewis
GA-13 David Scott
Hawaii
HI-1 Colleen Hanabusa
HI-2 Tulsi Gabbard
Illinois
IL-1 Bobby Rush
IL-2 Robin Kelly
IL-3 Dan Lipinski
IL-4 Luis Gutierrez
IL-5 Mike Quigley
IL-7 Danny K. Davis
IL-8 Raja Krishnamoorthi
IL-9 Jan Schakowsky
IL-10 Brad Schneider
IL-11 Bill Foster
IL-17 Cheri Bustos
Indiana
IN-1 Pete Visclosky
IN-7 Andre Carson
Iowa
IA-2 Dave Loebsack
Kentucky
KY-3 John Yarmuth
KY-4 Thomas Massie
Louisiana
LA-2 Cedric Richmond
Maine
ME-1 Chellie Pingree
Maryland
MD-2 Dutch Ruppersberger
MD-3 John Sarbanes
MD-4 Anthony G. Brown
MD-5 Steny Hoyer
MD-6 John Delaney
MD-7 Elijah Cummings
MD-8 Jamie Raskin
Massachusetts
MA-1 Richard Neal
MA-2 Jim McGovern
MA-Niki Tsongas
MA-4 Joe Kennedy III
MA-5 Katherine Clark
MA-6 Seth Moulton
MA-7 Mike Capuano
MA-8 Stephen F. Lynch
MA-9 Bill Keating
Michigan
MI-5 Dan Kildee
MI-9 Sander Levin
MI-12 Debbie Dingell
MI-13 John Conyers Jr.
MI-14 Brenda Lawrence
Minnesota
MN-1 Tim Walz
MN-4 Betty McCollum
MN-5 Keith Ellison
MN-7 Collin Peterson
MN-8 Rick Nolan
Mississippi
MS-2 Bennie Thompson
Missouri
MO-1 William Clay
MO-5 Emanuel Cleaver
Nevada
NV-1 Dina Titus
NV-3 Jacky Rosen
NV-4 Ruben Kihuen
New Hampshire
NH-1 Carol Shea-Porter
NH-2 Ann McLane Kuster
New Jersey
NJ-1 Donald Norcross
NJ-2 Frank A. LoBiondo
NJ-4 Christopher H. Smith
NJ-5 Josh Gottheimer
NJ-6 Frank Pallone
NJ-7 Leonard Lance
NJ-8 Albio Sires
NJ-9 Bill Pascrell Jr.
NJ-10 Donald Payne, Jr.
NJ-12 Bonnie Watson Coleman
New Mexico
NM-1 Michelle Lujan Grisham
NM-3 Ben Ray Lujan
New York
NY-3 Thomas Suozzi
NY-4 Kathleen Rice
NY-5 Gregory Meeks
NY-6 Grace Meng
NY-7 Nydia Velazquez
NY-8 Hakeem Jeffries
NY-9 Yvette Clarke
NY-10 Jerrold Nadler
NY-11 Dan Donovan
NY-12 Carolyn Maloney
NY-13 Adriano Espaillat
NY-14 Joseph Crowley
NY-15 Jose Serrano
NY-16 Eliot Engel
NY-17 Nita Lowey
NY-18 Sean Patrick Maloney
NY-20 Paul Tonko
NY-24 John Katko
NY-25 Louise Slaughter
NY-26 Brian Higgins
North Carolina
NC-1 G.K. Butterfield
NC-3 Walter B. Jones
NC-4 David Price
NC-12 Alma Adams
Ohio
OH-3 Joyce Beatty
OH-9 Marcy Kaptur
OH-10 Michael R. Turner
OH-11 Marcia Fudge
OH-13 Tim Ryan
OH-14 David Joyce
Oregon
OR-1 Suzanne Bonamici
OR-3 Earl Blumenauer
OR-4 Peter DeFazio
OR-5 Kurt Schrader
Pennsylvania
PA-1 Bob Brady
PA-2 Dwight Evans
PA-6 Ryan A. Costello
PA-7 Patrick Meehan
PA-8 Brian Fitzpatrick
PA-13 Brendan F. Boyle
PA-14 Michael Doyle
PA-15 Charlie Dent
PA-17 Matt Cartwright
Rhode Island
RI-1 David Cicilline
RI-2 Jim Langevin
South Carolina
SC-6 Jim Clyburn
Tennessee
TN-5 Jim Cooper
TN-9 Steve Cohen
Texas
TX-9 Al Green
TX-15 Vicente Gonzalez
TX-16 Beto O’Rourke
TX-18 Sheila Jackson Lee
TX-20 Joaquin Castro
TX-23 Will Hurd
TX-28 Henry Cuellar
TX-29 Gene Green
TX-30 Eddie Johnson
TX-33 Marc Veasey
TX-34 Filemon Vela, Jr.
TX-35 Lloyd Doggett
Vermont
VT-1 Peter Welch
Virginia
VA-3 Robert Scott
VA-4 Donald McEachin
VA-8 Don Beyer
VA-10 Barbara Comstock
VA-11 Gerry Connolly
Washington
WA-1 Suzan DelBene
WA-2 Rick Larsen
WA-3 Jaime Herrera Beutler
WA-6 Derek Kilmer
WA-7 Pramila Jayapal
WA-8 Dave Reichert
WA-9 Adam Smith
WA-10 Dennis Heck
Wisconsin
WI-2 Mark Pocan
WI-3 Ron Kind
WI-4 Gwen Moore
U.S. Senate
On July 26, the U.S. Senate defeated a “skinny” repeal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) by a vote of 51 to 49. Those voting “yes” were voting to partially repeal the ACA. Had this measure passed, it would have been the basis for negotiating a final bill with the House of Representatives. Here’s how the senators voted:
Voted Yes
Alabama
Luther J. Strange, III
Richard Shelby
Alaska
Daniel S. Sullivan
Arizona
Jeff Flake
Arkansas
John Boozman
Tom Cotton
Colorado
Cory Gardner
Florida
Marco Rubio
Georgia
David Perdue
Johnny Isakson
Idaho
Jim Risch
Mike Crapo
Indiana
Todd C. Young
Iowa
Chuck Grassley
Joni Ernst
Kansas
Jerry Moran
Pat Roberts
Kentucky
Mitch McConnell
Rand Paul
Louisiana
Bill Cassidy
John Neely Kennedy
Mississippi
Roger Wicker
Thad Cochran
Missouri
Roy Blunt
Montana
Steve Daines
Nebraska
Ben Sasse
Deb Fischer
Nevada
Dean Heller
North Carolina
Richard Burr
Thom Tillis
North Dakota
John Hoeven
Ohio
Rob Portman
Oklahoma
James Lankford
Jim Inhofe
Pennsylvania
Pat Toomey
South Carolina
Lindsey Graham
Tim Scott
South Dakota
John Thune
Mike Rounds
Tennessee
Bob Corker
Lamar Alexander
Texas
John Cornyn
Ted Cruz
Utah
Mike Lee
Orrin Hatch
West Virginia
Shelley Moore Capito
Wisconsin
Ron Johnson
Wyoming
John Barrasso
Mike Enzi
Voted No
Alaska
Lisa Murkowski
Arizona
John McCain
California
Dianne Feinstein
Kamala D. Harris
Colorado
Michael Bennet
Connecticut
Christopher S. Murphy
Richard Blumenthal
Delaware
Chris Coons
Tom Carper
Florida
Bill Nelson
Hawaii
Brian E. Schatz
Mazie K. Hirono
Illinois
Dick Durbin
Tammy Duckworth
Indiana
Joe Donnelly
Maine
Angus King
Susan Collins
Maryland
Ben Cardin
Chris Van Hollen
Massachusetts
Ed Markey
Elizabeth Warren
Michigan
Debbie Stabenow
Gary Peters
Minnesota
Al Franken
Amy Klobuchar
Missouri
Claire McCaskill
Montana
Jon Tester
Nevada
Catherine Cortez Masto
New Hampshire
Jeanne Shaheen
Maggie Hassan
New Jersey
Bob Menendez
Cory Booker
New Mexico
Martin Heinrich
Tom Udall
New York
Chuck Schumer
Kirsten Gillibrand
North Dakota
Heidi Heitkamp
Ohio
Sherrod Brown
Oregon
Jeff Merkley
Ron Wyden
Pennsylvania
Bob Casey, Jr.
Rhode Island
Jack Reed
Sheldon Whitehouse
Vermont
Bernie Sanders
Patrick Leahy
Virginia
Mark Warner
Tim Kaine
Washington
Maria Cantwell
Patty Murray
West Virginia
Joe Manchin III
Wisconsin
Tammy Baldwin