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Senate Roll Call 620, 106th Congress · September 13, 2000

To require that the President certify to Congress that the People's Republic of China has responded to inquiries regarding certain people who have been detained or imprisoned and has made substantial progress in releasing from prison people incarcerated for organizing independent trade unions.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

22 yea · 74 nayAmendment Rejected4 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 30 nay
Republican8 yea · 43 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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.

  • Criminal JusticeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Addressing foreign political prisoners in China is outside domestic criminal justice policy.

    Tagged by: keyword:prison

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

  • TradeA yea counts toward “Protectionist”

    model(0.85): Conditioning trade on human rights certifications acts as a trade restriction.

    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 (22)

Nay (74)

Not voting or present (4)

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