Senate Roll Call 196, 100th Congress · July 15, 1987
TO INVOKE CLOTURE, THEREBY LIMITING DEBATE ON 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 IN WHICH NO U.S. FUNDS WOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR THAT PURPOSE. MOTION REJECTED, THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.
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 (0.95) Measure concerns military protection of oil tankers rather than trade policy.
Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance
Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Prohibiting funds for tanker reflagging is a foreign policy restriction where spending is incidental.
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 (54)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (44)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John B. Breaux
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (2)
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
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