Senate Roll Call 589, 100th Congress · June 8, 1988
TO ADOPT, OVER PRESIDENT REAGAN'S VETO, OMNIBUS TRADE AND COMPETITIVENESS ACT, A BILL TO ENHANCE THE AMERICAN INDUSTRIAL COMPETITIVENESS ABROAD BY STRENGTHENING ACTIONS AGAINST UNFAIR FOREIGN TRADE, CLARIFYING GUIDELINES FOR BUSINESS CONDUCT ABROAD, REORGANIZING EDUCATION AND EXPORT PROGRAMS, RESCINDING THE WINDFALL PROFITS TAX ON OIL, AND REQUIRING ADVANCE NOTICE OF LARGE-SCALE PLANT CLOSINGS AND LAYOFFS. TWO-THIRDS OF THE SENATE, NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SUSTAINED THE PRESIDENTIAL VETO.
61 yea · 37 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat50 yea · 2 nay
Republican11 yea · 35 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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.
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) An omnibus trade and regulatory measure is not clearly fiscal expansion or restraint.
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 (61)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- 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
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (37)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thad Cochran
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- 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
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- 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)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Arlen SpecterDid not vote
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