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Senate Roll Call 624, 106th Congress · September 14, 2000

To authorize and request the President to report to the Congress annually, beginning in January, 2001, on the balance of trade with China for cereals (wheat, corn, and rice) and soybeans, and to direct the President to eliminate any deficit.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

16 yea · 81 nayAmendment Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat9 yea · 36 nay
Republican7 yea · 44 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.

  • TradeA yea counts toward “Protectionist”

    model(0.85): Mandating the elimination of trade deficits is a protectionist managed-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 (16)

Nay (81)

Not voting or present (3)

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.