Description

US Senate vote on Klobuchar amendment to lower drug prices

Format

A data frame with 94 observations on the following 6 variables.

Senator

Name of the Senator

Contributions

Amount of money received from the pharmaceutical industry over 6 years

Party

D=Democrat or R=Republican

State

Abbreviation for Senator's state

RollCall

Nay or Yea

Vote

Against or With what drug makers wanted

Details

January 2017 vote in the U.S. Senate related to repeal part of ObamaCare. The "Klobuchar amendment" to a bill was introduced with the purpose of lowering drug prices by allowing prescription drugs to be imported from Canada.

The data exclude two senators who did not vote on the amendment and four senators who were new to Congress and thus had received no money from the drug industry. The remaining 94 senators represent 49 states (every state except California) and each of these senators had received at least $3,000.

Source

Data obtained from:

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=115&session=1&vote=00020

http://maplight.org/us-congress/interest/H4300/view/all