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Senate Roll Call 709, 100th Congress · August 3, 1988

TO ADOPT SC RES 135 TO HR 4848, OMNIBUS TRADE BILL, TO AMEND THE BILL TO PROTECT THE AMERICAN ETHANOL INDUSTRY BY LIMITING THE AMOUNT OF DUTY-FREE IMPORTED ETHANOL ALLOWED INTO THE U.S.

62 yea · 34 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat25 yea · 26 nay
Republican37 yea · 8 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 “Protectionist”

    model(0.95): Limiting duty-free ethanol imports protects domestic industry by creating barriers to foreign ethanol trade.

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

    Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Limiting duty-free ethanol imports is a tariff/quota policy matter, not a direct federal spending measure.

    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 (62)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (4)

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