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Senate Roll Call 178, 100th Congress · July 7, 1987

TO AMEND S 1420, THE OMNIBUS TRADE BILL, TO PERMIT THE PRESIDENT TO GIVE TEMPORARY RELIEF FROM IMPORTS TO A U.S. INDUSTRY WHEN SUCH RELIEF IS RECOMMENDED BY THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION AND IN NATIONAL ECONOMIC INTERESTS.

41 yea · 55 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat8 yea · 45 nay
Republican33 yea · 11 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.

  • TradeA yea counts toward “Protectionist”

    model(0.95): Permitting temporary import relief for domestic industries protects U.S. markets from foreign competition.

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

    Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Granting import relief to domestic industries is a trade policy, not a budget spending issue.

    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 (41)

Nay (56)

Not voting or present (3)

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