Senate Roll Call 706, 100th Congress · August 3, 1988
TO TABLE THE MCCLURE, ID AMENDMENT TO HR 4848, OMNIBUS TRADE BILL, TO PROVIDE THAT THE PRESIDENT, WHEN GRANTING "MOST FAVORED NATION" STATUS TO A COUNTRY, WOULD ALSO HAVE TO CONSIDER THE EXTENT OF THEIR COMPLIANCE WITH THE HELSINKI ACCORD ON HUMAN RIGHTS.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 kills a human rights condition on granting Most Favored Nation status, making trade expansion easier.
Tagged by: policy-area:Foreign Trade and International Finance
Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Adding human rights criteria to MFN trade status does not impact federal spending or budget.
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 (67)
- Brockman Adams
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Tom Harkin
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- William Proxmire
- 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
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (29)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- David Kemp Karnes
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- John Melcher
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Larry Lee Pressler
- James Danforth Quayle
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (4)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
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