The following senators voted for the tax:

Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
Max Baucus (D-MT)
Evan Bayh (D-IN)
Mark Begich (D-AK)
Michael Bennet (D-CO)
Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Roland Burris (D-IL)
Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Tom Carper (D-DE)
Bob Casey (D-PA)
Kent Conrad (D-ND)
Chris Dodd (D-CT)
Byron Dorgan (D-ND)
Richard Durbin (D-IL)
Russ Feingold (D-WI)
Diane Feinstein (D-CA)
Al Franken (D-MN)
Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
Tom Harkin (D-IA)
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Tim Johnson (D-SD)
Edward Kaufman (D-DE)
John Kerry (D-MA)
Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Herb Kohl (D-WI)
Mary Landrieu (D-LA)
Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Pat Leahy (D-VT)
Carl Levin (D-MI)
Joe Lieberman (ID-CT)
Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)
Claire McCaskill (D-MO)
Bob Menendez (D-NJ)
Jeff Merkley (D-OR)
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Patty Murray (D-WA)
Bill Nelson (D-FL)
Mark Pryor (D-AR)
Jack Reed (D-RI)
Harry Reid (D-NV)
Jay Rockefeller (D-WV)
Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Arlen Specter (D-PA)
Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Mark Udall (D-CO)
Tom Udall (D-NM)
Mark Warner (D-VA)
Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Ron Wyden (D-OR)

The way it appears, Obama wants another American Revolution! Life's like a box of chocolates1
>> Tulsa Patriot Wednesday, July 7, 2010 8:36 AM Report Comment

I personally think that this is one of THE most reprehensible things this administration has done to date. These men and women were promised, when they signed on the dotted line, that their medical would be taken care of for the rest of their lives; this is just one more 'screw job' that they're being given. None of them asked to be injured while in service for their country, and they shouldn't be taxed on necessary medical equipment. It's patently obvious that this President has absolutely no respect for our military; look at all the pictures that have been taken of Obama doing his now infamous 'crotch salute'. He holds the highest office in the land, and doesn't have the first clue how to behave.
>> Bonnie Wednesday, July 7, 2010 11:11 AM Report Comment

every senator that voited for the veterans,who have limited income,being taxed need to lose their job,benefits,and anything us thay receive and any thing else for taxings us. It is long known that they care less about freedom and the lives that were lost for the sake of freedom. May they receive their just reward.
>> Carlos Andrews Wednesday, July 7, 2010 12:11 PM Report Comment

Everey day Obama does yet another thing to hurt our country or embarrass us that he is our so called, 'leader'. What he's pulling now is a horrible slap in the face to our military! The same military that is keeping his butt safe and protected. He's the worst POTUS in my lifetime and I find it hard to believe that he'll go down in history anything other than the worst of the worst! When he does his crotch salute, he may as well be flipping off our flag. WHAT MAKES THIS OKAY WITH THE REST OF THE NATION???? I just don't get it. Obama isn't qualified for the position he's in and every day he's making more decisions to weaken and ruin our country.
>> Sandi Wednesday, July 7, 2010 1:08 PM Report Comment

So my son who fought in Iraq and lost his leg, is just now (after 3 1/2 years) is receiving his first prosthetic leg and has several wheelchairs to get him around will be charged a tax on what the GOVERNMENT owes him?!!! What is going on with this country? HOW CAN PEOPLE ALLOW THIS TO HAPPEN AFTER EVERYTHING HE HAS GIVEN ALREADY!!!!!!!
>> Luana Schneider Wednesday, July 7, 2010 6:42 PM Report Comment

I missed the source for this. Is it a Bill in front of Congress, or already passed, or what? Thanks!
>> Wendy Wednesday, July 7, 2010 6:43 PM Report Comment

Wendy - it's already passed. Orrin Hatch tried to make an amendment to the healthcare bill, and was voted down.
>> Bonnie Wednesday, July 7, 2010 6:47 PM Report Comment

Wow!Rev:6,8 and Matthew 24:7,8 BIG-TIME. Thanks -
>> Wendy Wallace Wednesday, July 7, 2010 7:36 PM Report Comment

Here is an explanation of this provision. Veterans will continue to get their medical equipment free of charge. Check this out: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/07/07/how-affordable-care-act-helps-veterans
>> Darby Wednesday, July 7, 2010 8:31 PM Report Comment

Discounting Veterans why should anyone needing medical equipment be taxed? People in wheelchairs or with prosthetics but not SEIU,etc? Obama is not a 'good guy' because he would exempt the vets. He called the veterans 'whinners' because of the outrage at him suggesting they pay for their own health care-free to illegals, exempt A.C.O.R.N., SEIU etc. Why not collect taxes from the bums in DC that haven't been paying? Geitner, Wrangel. Why aren't they being prosecuted for tax evasion as we would be? The whole Admin is rotten to the core. We should demand resignations-prosecute the crooks & reverse what damage we can.
>> Betty Thursday, July 8, 2010 6:27 AM Report Comment

My friends, It is time to vote out the Democrats and return this country to the people. Term limits,no more than a total of twelve years in congress either in the house or senate or any combination thereof.
>> Viet Vet Thursday, July 8, 2010 12:56 PM Report Comment

Just so you know, the tax applies to MANUFACTURERS, not the patients, and it does not begin until 2013.
>> EAP Friday, July 9, 2010 11:34 AM Report Comment

THIS PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS HAVE FORSAKEN OUR LAWS, THEIR VOWS TO UP HOLD THE CONSTITUTION AND THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY WISHES WITH THIS HEALTH CARE BILL. EVERY DAY WE HEAR MORE OF THE HORRORS AWAITING US AS THE COST AND MORAL ISSUES COME TO LITE. I FULLY EXPECT THAT MY NAME AND MY WIFES WWILL BE ON A LIST FOR THOSE THAT WILL NO LONGER RECEIVE CARE. BECAUSE WE ARE TO OLD AND WE HAVE TO MANY HEALTH ISSUES. THEN WE WILL BE TOLD TO REPORT TO THE EUTHANASIA CENTER SO WE CAN HELP OUT THOSE THAT ARE HEALTHY BY DYING. THIS MAN, THIS CONGRESS, THIS GOVERNMENT AND THE GLOBALIST AGENDA MUST BE STOPPED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!!!!
>> RANDY Friday, July 9, 2010 2:52 PM Report Comment

It would be terrible - IF it were true, but it's not. Prosthetics and other devices required for treatment of combat-related injuries are paid for by the VA, not by the Veteran. We can't be taxed for things we don't buy. As a result, there is no basis for any tax on the vet. It's a bogus claim. This is just more smoke & mirrors - propaganda designed by the anti-Obama crowd to mislead us.
>> Alan Runfeldt Saturday, July 10, 2010 12:32 PM Report Comment

Senate Amendment submitted by Orin Hatch, et al. states "SA 3644. Mr. HATCH (for himself, Mr. COBURN, and Mr. CRAPO) proposed an amendment to the bill H.R. 4872, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to Title II of the concurrent resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2010 (S. Con. Res. 13); as follows: On page 99, between lines 9 and 10, insert the following: (e) Exclusion of Medical Devices Sold Under the TRICARE for Life Program or Veteran'" This amendment was defeated.
>> Mike Armstrong Sunday, July 11, 2010 12:54 AM Report Comment

My impression of the bill is that they are going to send out notices (not unlike a 1099) to everyone and it will be added to their income. Again I am very angered by this bill! They can now try to put it into whatever words they want, but this is going to come back to bite our wounded military members in the A**! Does no one remember when he wanted our severely wounded to PAY for their own medical care? In my opinion he is going to make that happen one way or another!
>> Luana Schneider Sunday, July 11, 2010 7:19 AM Report Comment

When someone joins the military, they know the risks they are going to have to take. They are paid for the job that they do. Why are the tax payers obligated to them for the rest of their lives. Plenty of people do work in this country that assume risk. Highway workers, police officers, construction workers.. but if they are injured on the job Workman's comp has to pay for their injury, and disablity insurance has to pay for their disablity.
>> Paul S Sunday, July 11, 2010 4:15 PM Report Comment

And they have a right to sue their employer for their injuries...the military cannot do that!!!!
>> Luana Sunday, July 11, 2010 4:43 PM Report Comment

READ PEOPLE! http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/07/07/how-affordable-care-act-helps-veterans
>> Matt Monday, July 12, 2010 11:36 PM Report Comment

if you go to http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00081 it says motion to table agreed to, not rejected. This looks like a boldface lie to try to turn the poeople even further away from the democrats, like they need any more help. The sad thing is this kind of stuff makes us all look like a bunch of ignorant conspericy theorist extremist. Lets get the facts right not go around yelling wolf. To answer Paul S our military's insurance and workmans comp is the VA which is paid for by the taxpayers think of it as your way of paying for the freedom the have granted you by risking thier life.
>> Tim Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:55 PM Report Comment

PAUL S. Enjoy your freedom; you are ungrateful and unappreciative. I am pretty sure you work at McDonalds, and you job albeit dangerous is nothing compared to our troops. We don't mind putting our bodies in harm’s way if need be. What we don't like is that the government would have lied to us, and changed their responsibility half way through our enlistments.
>> CARTER Tuesday, July 13, 2010 3:11 PM Report Comment

P.S. I really hope you are an ignorant kid working as a dish washer in a fast food restaurant, and not a contributing member of society. I wouldn’t want you spreading this hog wash to anyone else. Just you saying what you said disrespects and insults everyone in the military and everyone who died to earn you the right to say what you want. You have done NOTHING to earn the rights you so eagerly exercise. The Highway workers comment is laughable, but the troopers and firemen are compensated in kind with the military. I understand they might not be charging for this yet, but they are slowly taking away benifits they promised us years ago.
>> CARTER Tuesday, July 13, 2010 3:15 PM Report Comment

Viet Vet - 12 years is still way too long. They ought to ALL be limited to two terms, just like the office of the President. They get too complacent and stop listening to their constituents. I say vote them all out. This is THE worst administration I've ever seen. I'm wondering how much longer he's going to blame Bush for all the disastrous messes he's created!
>> Tigress57 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 4:01 PM Report Comment

Matt - I went to the website and read: "This is *not a tax on consumers* and claims that the tax will result in **higher prices** for prosthetics or other medical devices are wrong. Prices and reimbursements for medical devices will continue to be >>negotiated between the device industry and insurance companies, retail establishments, and the federal government,>negotiated prices
>> 93rd Evac ANC Tuesday, July 13, 2010 7:04 PM Report Comment

This is rubbish. You should fact check before you pass along "an email that just came in" unless you aren't interested in the facts, which seems to be the case.
>> Mr Bil Wednesday, July 14, 2010 12:39 AM Report Comment

Isn't it just like obama. Honoring muslims and their beliefs going so far as to making a national holiday for them. Did anyone know about his pet project when he was governor of Illinois. His new state of the art prison cook county correctional facility where he wants all of these terrorists to be transferred to so they can be more comfortable. I guarantee that before long he is going to be in alliance with Hamas and anyone not for him will be either imprisoned or shot. God have mercy on us. But you know what? God,is in control Look up the Cook county correctional facility. Start beleiving in the Bible. God wants you. He loves you.
>> pissed off and told ya so Wednesday, July 14, 2010 1:54 PM Report Comment

Relax, folks. THERE IS NO TRUTH WHATSOEVER TO THIS RUMOR. See below,from the government Web site: http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2010/07/07/how-affordable-care-act-helps-veterans How Affordable Care Act Helps Veterans July 07, 2010 ... The latest rumor is the unfounded charge that “America's wounded warriors face a new tax on prosthetic limbs and other vital medical devices.” Nothing could be further from the truth. While the new law includes a tax on big medical device manufacturers, the tax won’t be passed on to veterans and WOUNDED ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY PERSONNEL AND VETERANS WILL CONTINUE TO RECEIVE PROSTHETIC DEVICES AT NO COST from the VA and TRICARE. (Go to the Web address to read the full article.)
>> shirlee Friday, July 16, 2010 7:20 PM Report Comment

To everyone who keeps refering to the whitehouse.gov web site, I have a question for you. Do you really believe what you read one a blog at whitehouse.gov? Yeah its a bunch of crap but thats the last place I would go to find out. If you go to http://senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=111&session=2&vote=00081 you can read that the admendment was actually voted to the table and what the admendment actually says along with the rest of the bill. Not just what some staffer at the whitehose wants you to know.
>> Tim Monday, July 19, 2010 12:25 PM Report Comment

Bravo, Tim! The dotgov site claims "the government" will pay. Pretty sure that is not the ruling elite digging into its own pockets [filled with taxpayer-earned dollars, out of which legislators vote themselves pay raises and other perks denied to those same taxpayers]. To claim the cost will not be passed along to the veteran overlooks the fact that veterans are part of the tax-burdened public. About time we take back "government of the people, by the people and for the people" instead of "...of...by...and for..." a ruling class elite. Our elected officials, aka "public SERVANTS" have their obligations spelled out in the US Constitution. Caring for those who have borne the heat of battle is a chief responsibility.
>> 93rd Evac ANC Monday, July 19, 2010 4:52 PM Report Comment

The final bill states that WOUNDED ACTIVE DUTY MILITARY PERSONNEL AND VETERANS WILL CONTINUE TO RECEIVE PROSTHETIC DEVICES AT NO COST from the VA and TRICARE. You are just anti-Obama and are not interested in the facts. You probably believe all the undocumented emails that circulate the internet and that could have been written by any idiot with an axe to grind. If you really care about our country, you will start seeking the truth.
>> shirlee Monday, July 19, 2010 6:01 PM Report Comment

@ Shirley Why is someone anti-obama if they disagree with this? Funny how that is always the argument. This is yet another tax hike on the People. Sure it says the tax is to the manufacturer but they will just hike up there prices and pass it on to the consumer. This country is hanging onto a thread. Government is way to big and spending to recklessly. There solution to all this is to raise taxes rather then cut spending. This spending will be he downfall of this country.
>> Joe Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:15 PM Report Comment

Joe, where were you when W lied us into two unnecessary wars and cut taxes at the same time, which turned a healthy budget surplus into a $7 TRILLION deficit in 2009 through 2019? W charged everything he did to our children -- he didn't pay for a thing, including the Rx bill -- and that is why we're in the mess we are in today. See: http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3036
>> shirlee Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:51 PM Report Comment

Cutting taxes actually increases tax revenue (those in government know it, but for some strange reason the liberals fight it). Lower taxes encourage people, rather than discouraging them, to work more to better their own situation. When tax rates go up, where's the incentive to work oneself into a higher bracket? A person can actually work longer and harder and have less take home pay when that happens. Check it out. I recommend economists Thomas Sowell and Walter E. Williams, websites online.
>> 93rd Evac ANC Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:24 PM Report Comment

Get your head out of the sand. Eight years of Republican leadership just PROVED that cutting taxes does not work ... It's staring you right in the face. We lost 8 million jobs and gained a multi-trillion dollar deficit doing that! How you can say cutting taxes increases revenue after what we've just been through is unbelievable. It just shows once again that conservatives do not care about the facts.
>> shirlee Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:44 PM Report Comment

My recommendation to check the facts remains. You may have to alter your opinion after studying what economists know to be true. Perhaps you blame the tax rate cuts because you are unaware of the real cause for the economic mess we are now experiencing. Another site to check: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MGT_cSi7Rs This is excerpts from a hearing to investigate Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and their illegal bookkeeping...from 2004. House cleaning (Senate, too) is long overdue, with such corruption at high levels.
>> 93rd Evac ANC Friday, July 23, 2010 12:12 AM Report Comment