A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of the Congress with respect to the importance of Medicaid in…

Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 109th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

TKD KennedySponsor

43 cosponsors · 42 D, 1 I

DAD Akaka MBD Baucus JBD Biden JBD Bingaman BBD Boxer RBD Byrd EBD Bayh MCD Cantwell TCD Carper KCD Conrad HCD Clinton JCD Corzine CDD Dodd BDD Dorgan RDD Durbin MDD Dayton RFD Feingold DFD Feinstein THD Harkin DID Inouye JJI Jeffords TJD Johnson JKD Kerry HKD Kohl BLD Lincoln FLD Lautenberg PLD Leahy CLD Levin JLD Lieberman MLD Landrieu BMD Mikulski PMD Murray BND Nelson BOD Obama MPD Pryor JRD Reed HRD Reid JRD Rockefeller PSD Sarbanes CSD Schumer DSD Stabenow KSD Salazar RWD Wyden

43 signed on when it was introduced; the rest joined later. Cosponsors who withdrew aren't shown.

Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) over the past four decades Medicaid has been a core component of the American health system; (2) Medicaid has ensured that the vast majority of Medicaid beneficiaries did not join the ranks of the current 45 million Americans with no health insurance; and (3) Congress must continue and strengthen the state-federal…