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Senate Roll Call 294, 105th Congress · November 5, 1997

An original bill to establish objectives for negotiating and procedures for implementing certain trade agreements. — (SENATE AGREED TO A MOTION TO PROCEED WITH CONSIDERATION OF S. 1269.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Proceed

68 yea · 31 nayMotion to Proceed Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat25 yea · 20 nay
Republican41 yea · 11 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1269 ↗

Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1997

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.

  • TradeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) A motion to proceed to consideration is a floor procedural vote.

    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 (68)

Nay (31)

Not voting or present (1)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.