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Senate Roll Call 179, 100th Congress · July 8, 1987

TO AMEND S 1420, THE OMNIBUS TRADE BILL, TO BROADEN THE DEFINITION OF UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES TO INCLUDE SUBSIDIES USED BY FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS TO CREATE SURPLUSES OF SOME NON-AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, AND TO ALLOW PROTECTION OF AFFECTED U.S. INDUSTRIES THROUGH NEGOTIATION AND THE IMPOSITION OF SIMILAR TARIFFS OR QUOTAS.

71 yea · 28 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat35 yea · 18 nay
Republican36 yea · 10 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): Allowing protection of U.S. industries through tariffs and quotas pushes toward protectionism.

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

    Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Broadening unfair trade definitions and imposing tariffs is trade regulation, not a spending measure.

    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 (71)

Nay (28)

Not voting or present (1)

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