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.
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.
- 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)
- Brockman Adams
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- John B. Breaux
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Ernest F. Hollings
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (42)
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Carl Levin
- John McCain
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Arlen Specter
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (8)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Daniel Jackson EvansDid not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
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