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Senate Roll Call 737, 100th Congress · September 7, 1988

TO TABLE THE GRAMM, TX AMENDMENT TO S 2662, TEXTILE IMPORT QUOTAS, TO ALLOW THE PRESIDENT TO SUSPEND A QUOTA IF HE DETERMINES THAT IT WOULD IMPOSE AN ECONOMIC BURDEN ON THE POOR THAT IS GREATER THAN THAT IMPOSED ON THE ON THE U.S. AS A WHOLE.

60 yea · 34 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat48 yea · 3 nay
Republican13 yea · 31 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2662 ↗

Textile Apparel and Footwear Trade 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): Tabling kills amendment allowing suspension of import quotas.

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

    Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (61)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (5)

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