Senate Roll Call 169, 100th Congress · June 30, 1987

TO AMEND S 1420, THE OMNIBUS TRADE BILL, TO REQUIRE THAT FOOD LABELS SPECIFY THE COUNTRY ORIGIN OF ALL IMPORTED INGREDIENTS.

73 yea · 19 nay8 not voting or present

Democrat43 yea · 6 nay

Republican30 yea · 13 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1987

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(0.90): Country of origin labeling imposes restrictions on imported food ingredients.
Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance
Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Country-of-origin labeling rule is regulatory, not fiscal spending.
Tagged by: keyword:omnibus
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

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

Yea (73)

Nay (19)

Not voting or present (8)

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