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Senate Roll Call 704, 100th Congress · August 3, 1988

TO TABLE THE DURENBERGER, MN AMENDMENT TO HR 4848, OMNIBUS TRADE BILL, TO MAKE THE REPEAL OF THE EMBARGO ON SOVIET UNION FURSKINS DEPENDENT ON CERTIFICATION BY THE PRESIDENT THAT LIMITATIONS ON EMIGRATION FROM THE U.S.S.R. ARE BEING RELAXED.

64 yea · 32 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat49 yea · 2 nay
Republican15 yea · 30 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4848 ↗

Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988

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 the amendment kills a proposed restriction on repealing the Soviet furskin embargo, promoting freer trade.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance

    Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) This vote concerns foreign trade policy and human rights, not spending or budget policy.

    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 (64)

Nay (32)

Not voting or present (4)

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