Senate Roll Call 198, 100th Congress · July 15, 1987

TO TABLE THE DANFORTH, MO AMENDMENT TO S 1420, THE OMNIBUS TRADE BILL, WHICH WOULD ALLOW THE PRESIDENT TO OVERLOOK THE SUSPENSION OF ROMANIA'S MOST-FAVORED NATION STATUS IF HE DETERMINES THAT SUSPENSION WOULD HARM EITHER HUMAN RIGHTS CONDITIONS OR EMIGRATION.

53 yea · 44 nay3 not voting or present

Democrat25 yea · 27 nay

Republican28 yea · 17 nay

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): Tabling an amendment that allows preserving MFN status blocks trade flexibility, favoring protectionism.
Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance
Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade
Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Waiving MFN status suspension for Romania concerns foreign trade policy, not federal spending.
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 (53)

Nay (44)

Not voting or present (3)

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