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House Roll Call 902, 100th Congress · October 5, 1988

TO PASS, HR 5410, FOREIGN INVESTMENT DISCLOSURE, TO REQUIRE REGISTRATION OF FOREIGN CITIZENS WHO OBTAIN A LARGE OR CONTROLLING INTEREST IN U.S. BUSINESS OR REAL ESTATE IN ORDER TO DOCUMENT FACTS ABOUT THE PURCHASE.

250 yea · 170 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat205 yea · 37 nay
Republican45 yea · 133 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5410 ↗

Foreign Ownership Disclosure Act of 1988

Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • TradeA yea counts toward “Protectionist”

    model(0.85): Mandating registration and disclosure for foreign investments restricts free international capital flow.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance

    Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (251)

Nay (172)

Not voting or present (8)

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