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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.

54 yea · 44 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat49 yea · 3 nay
Republican5 yea · 41 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 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)

Nay (44)

Not voting or present (2)

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