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Their Record

Senate Roll Call 618, 106th Congress · September 13, 2000

To require the Secretary of Commerce to consult with leaders of American businesses to encourage them to adopt a code of conduct for doing business in the People's Republic of China.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

23 yea · 73 nayAmendment Rejected4 not voting or present
Democrat10 yea · 34 nay
Republican12 yea · 39 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.

  • TradeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Encouraging voluntary corporate codes of conduct does not directly alter trade rules.

    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 (23)

Nay (73)

Not voting or present (4)

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.