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Senate Roll Call 615, 106th Congress · September 13, 2000

To require that the Congressional-Executive Commission monitor the cooperation of the People's Republic of China with respect to POW/MIA issues, improvement in the areas of forced abortions, slave labor, and organ harvesting, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

29 yea · 66 nayAmendment Rejected5 not voting or present
Democrat11 yea · 34 nay
Republican18 yea · 32 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.

  • Abortion & ContraceptionDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Foreign human rights monitoring does not alter US reproductive rights access.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • TradeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Establishing a human rights monitoring commission does not directly restrict or open trade.

    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 (29)

Nay (66)

Not voting or present (5)

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