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Senate Roll Call 150, 112th Congress · September 22, 2011

A bill to extend the Generalized System of Preferences, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill

70 yea · 27 nayBill Passed3 not voting or present
Democrat50 yea · 0 nay
Republican17 yea · 27 nay
Independent3 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2832

To extend the Generalized System of Preferences, and for other purposes.

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 “Free trade”

    model(0.95): Passing the Generalized System of Preferences lowers import tariffs, advancing free 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.

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