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House Roll Call 286, 101st Congress · October 23, 1989

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H RES 257, EUROPEAN BROADCAST DIRECTIVE, TO EXPRESS DISAPPROVAL WITH THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S ADOPTION OF RESTRICTIVE BROADCASTING RULES. (MOTION PASSED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING IN FAVOR.)

342 yea · 0 nay88 not voting or present
Democrat200 yea · 0 nay
Republican143 yea · 0 nay
Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.Res. 257

Denouncing the adoption by the European Community of a restrictive broadcasting directive.

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): Opposes European trade restrictions on broadcasting, favoring open international trade.

    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 (344)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (88)

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