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Senate Roll Call 617, 106th Congress · September 13, 2000

To express the sense of Congress regarding forced abortions in the People's Republic of China.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

43 yea · 53 nayAmendment Rejected4 not voting or present
Democrat20 yea · 24 nay
Republican22 yea · 29 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 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) A non-binding sense of Congress on Chinese forced abortions does not alter domestic abortion access.

    Tagged by: keyword:abortions

    Axis: Expand access ← → Restrict access

  • TradeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) A non-binding resolution on Chinese human rights is unrelated to trade policy.

    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 (43)

Nay (53)

Not voting or present (4)

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