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Senate Roll Call 280, 101st Congress · November 1, 1989

A bill making appropriations for the Department of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1990, and for other purposes. — TO TABLE THE HELMS (R, NC) AMENDMENT TO HR 2991, COMMERCE, JUSTICE, STATE AND JUDICIARY APPROPRIATIONS-CONFERENCE REPORT, TO ADD MORE SANCTIONS AGAINST THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

53 yea · 45 nayMotion to Table Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat40 yea · 13 nay
Republican13 yea · 31 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2991 ↗

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990

Policy area: Economics and Public 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.

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Foreign policy sanctions on China do not represent fiscal expansion or restraint.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    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 (53)

Nay (46)

Not voting or present (1)

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