Senate Roll Call 206, 100th Congress · July 21, 1987
TO TABLE THE SPECTER, PA AMENDMENT TO S 1420, THE OMNIBUS TRADE BILL, WHICH WOULD STATE THAT THE PRESIDENT SHOULD ENGAGE IN MULTILATERAL NEGOTIATIONS TO STRENGTHEN RULES AGAINST UNFAIR TRADE, SUCH AS DUMPING, SUBSIDIES, AND CUSTOMS FRAUD, AND TO OFFER A PRIVATE MEANS OF COMPENSATING FOR SUCH PRACTICES.
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 “Free trade”
model(0.85): Tabling an amendment calling for strict retaliatory rules blocks protectionist trade mechanisms.
Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance
Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Multilateral trade negotiations regarding dumping and subsidies do not affect federal budget 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 (65)
- Brockman Adams
- William Lester Armstrong
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- David Kemp Karnes
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John McCain
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (31)
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- Robert C. Byrd
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Carl Levin
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Richard C. Shelby
- Arlen Specter
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (4)
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.Did not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Warren Bruce RudmanDid not vote
- Paul Martin SimonDid not vote
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