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House Roll Call 828, 101st Congress · October 18, 1990

TO AMEND HR 4939, CONDITIONAL MOST FAVORED NATION TREATMENT FOR THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, TO REQUIRE THE PRESIDENT, PRIOR TO THE GRANTING OF MFN STATUS, TO INCLUDE IN HIS REPORT TO CONGRESS THAT CHINA IS FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS OF THE 1984 JOINT DECLARATION ON HONG KONG REGARDING THE TRANSFER OF HONG KONG TO CHINA BY 1997.

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

408 yea · 7 nayAgreed to15 not voting or present
Democrat232 yea · 5 nay
Republican176 yea · 2 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4939 ↗

Regarding the extension of most-favored-nation treatment to the products of the People's Republic of China, and for other purposes.

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(0.90): Adding reporting conditions creates barriers to granting MFN trade status.

    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 (410)

Nay (7)

Not voting or present (15)

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