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House Roll Call 743, 101st Congress · October 1, 1990

PROTECTING ANTARCTICA AS A GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL COMMONS — TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS HJ RES 418, ANARCTIC TREATY, TO PROTECT ANTARCTICA AS A GLOBAL ECOLOGICAL COMMONS. (MOTION PASSED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING IN FAVOR.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

397 yea · 11 nayPassed21 not voting or present
Democrat237 yea · 0 nay
Republican161 yea · 11 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.J.Res. 418 ↗

Calling for the United States to encourage immediate negotiations toward a new agreement among Antarctic Treaty Consultative Parties, for the full protection of Antarctica as a global ecological commons.

Policy area: Environmental Protection — 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.

  • Climate & EnergyA yea counts toward “Climate action”

    model(0.95): Protects Antarctica as an ecological commons, supporting environmental protection.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Environmental Protection

    Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority

Who voted which way

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

Yea (400)

Nay (11)

Not voting or present (21)

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