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Senate Roll Call 183, 100th Congress · July 9, 1987

TO TABLE THE BUMPERS, AR AMENDMENT TO S 1420, THE OMNIBUS TRADE BILL, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE AN 89 DAY PERIOD FOLLOWING THE PASSAGE OF THE BILL TO "REFLAG" KUWAITI OIL TANKERS WITH U.S. FLAGS IN WHICH NO FUNDS WOULD BE MADE AVAILABLE FOR THAT PURPOSE.

42 yea · 56 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat3 yea · 49 nay
Republican39 yea · 7 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) Measure concerns foreign policy and military reflagging of tankers, not commercial trade policy.

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

    Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal expansion”

    model(0.85): Tabling an amendment that blocked funding for reflagging oil tankers allows the spending to proceed.

    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 (42)

Nay (56)

Not voting or present (2)

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