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Senate Roll Call 613, 106th Congress · September 12, 2000

To require the President certify to Congress that the People's Republic of China has taken certain actions with respect to ensuring human rights protection.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

32 yea · 63 nayAmendment Rejected5 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 30 nay
Republican18 yea · 33 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4444 ↗

To authorize extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the People's Republic of China, and to establish a framework for relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China.

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): Adding human rights conditions creates barriers to normal trade relations with China.

    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 (32)

Nay (63)

Not voting or present (5)

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.