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House Roll Call 607, 105th Congress · November 7, 1997

Monitor Chinese Military Products — H.R.2647 BY FOWLER (R-FL) -- MONITORING OF COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES OF COMMUNIST CHINESE MILITARY COMPANIES, PROVISION (HOUSE PASSED H.R. 2647, TO ENSURE THAT COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES OF THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY OF CHINA OR ANY COMMUNIST CHINESE MILITARY COMPANY IN THE UNITED STATES ARE MONITORED AND ARE SUBJECT TO THE AUTHORITIES UNDER THE INTERNATIONAL EMERGENCY ECONOMIC POWERS ACT.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

408 yea · 10 nayPassed15 not voting or present
Democrat189 yea · 8 nay
Republican218 yea · 2 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2647 ↗

To ensure that commercial activities of the People's Liberation Army of China or any Communist Chinese military company in the United States are monitored and are subject to the authorities under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act.

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): Imposes trade monitoring and economic emergency sanctions on Chinese military companies.

    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 (408)

Nay (10)

Not voting or present (15)

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