Senate Roll Call 187, 100th Congress · July 10, 1987
TO AMEND IN A PERFECTING NATURE THE BYRD, WV-DOLE, KS AMENDMENT TO S 1420, THE OMNIBUS TRADE BILL, TO REQUIRE THE IDENTIFICATION OF UNFAIR TRADE PATTERNS AND THEIR COST TO U.S. INDUSTRY, AND AUTHORIZE THE U.S. TRADE REPRESENTATIVE TO NEGOTIATE THE REMOVAL OF THE TRADE BARRIERS OR SEEK COMPENSATION FOR THEM.
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.
- TradeA yea counts toward “Protectionist”
model(0.85): Mandating identification of unfair trade practices and authorizing trade retaliation moves 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) Measure governs trade enforcement negotiating mandates, not spending or revenues.
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 (89)
- Brockman Adams
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (7)
Not voting or present (4)
- Thomas A. DaschleDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
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