Senate Roll Call 141, 102nd Congress · July 22, 1991
To express Congress' findings with respect to the trade practices of the People's Republic of China, to specify additional areas of trade in which the People's Republic of China needs to make significant progress, to require the President to take action with respect to certain trade practices and human rights violations, and for other purposes. — S.1367 BY MITCHELL, GEORGE (D-ME) -- UNITED STATES CHINA ACT OF 1991 (SENATE AGREED TO THE BINGAMAN AMENDMENT NO. 802, EXPRESSING CONGRESS' FINDINGS WITH RESPECT TO THE TRADE PRACTICES OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, SPECIFYING ADDITIONAL AREAS OF TRADE IN WHICH THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA NEEDS TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS, AND REQUIRING THE PRESIDENT TO TAKE ACTION WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN TRADE PRACTICES AND HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
United States-China Act of 1991
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(0.85): Requiring action and conditions against Chinese trade practices moves toward trade restrictions.
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 (55)
- Brockman Adams
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Tom Harkin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Connie Mack III
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Robert Smith
- Paul David Wellstone
- Timothy E. Wirth
- Harris Wofford
Nay (35)
- Christopher S. Bond
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Larry E. Craig
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- John Seymour
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (10)
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Thomas A. DaschleDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- Wyche Fowler Jr.Did not vote
- Edwin Jacob GarnDid not vote
- James M. JeffordsDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Larry Lee PresslerDid not vote
- David Hampton PryorDid not vote
- William V. Roth Jr.Did not vote
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