Senate Roll Call 186, 100th Congress · July 10, 1987
TO TABLE THE CHAFEE, RI AMENDMENT TO S 1420, THE OMNIBUS TRADE BILL, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE TOBACCO IN THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE EXPORT PROGRAM IN WHICH GOVERNMENT-OWNED COMMODITIES ARE GIVEN AWAY IN ORDER TO ENHANCE U.S. COMPETITION IN FOREIGN MARKETS.
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 (0.85) Tabling export promotion assistance for tobacco is an agricultural program issue with ambiguous trade direction.
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 to include tobacco in commodity giveaway programs prevents spending expansion.
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 (51)
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Nay (44)
- Brockman Adams
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Alan John Dixon
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Bob Graham
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Henry John Heinz III
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (5)
- Thomas A. DaschleDid not vote
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
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