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Senate Roll Call 176, 100th Congress · July 1, 1987

TO TABLE THE MELCHER, MT AMENDMENT TO S 1420, THE OMNIBUS TRADE BILL, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE THE SECRETARY OF LABOR TO ESTABLISH A CONSUMER PRICE INDEX TO GAUGE THE EFFECTS OF INFLATION ON THE ELDERLY.

50 yea · 42 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat24 yea · 25 nay
Republican26 yea · 17 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1420

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.

  • TradeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Establishing a Consumer Price Index for the elderly is unrelated to trade policy.

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

    Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.85): Tabling an amendment requiring the creation of a new specialized CPI avoids creating a government program.

    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 (50)

Nay (42)

Not voting or present (8)

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