Skip to content
Their Record

House Roll Call 1238, 95th Congress · July 27, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 12157 BY PROHIBITING THE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK FROM EXTENDING LOANS OR GUARANTEES TO ANY COUNTRY WHOSE GOVERNMENT HAS ENGAGED IN A CONSISTENT PATTERN OF GROSS VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED HUMAN RIGHTS.

103 yea · 286 nay38 not voting or present
Democrat75 yea · 177 nay
Republican27 yea · 112 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 12157

A bill to amend and extend the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945.

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(0.90): Placing human rights conditions on Ex-Im trade loans restricts 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.

Yea (104)

Nay (290)

Not voting or present (38)

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.