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House Roll Call 1492, 95th Congress · October 6, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 11545, THE MEAT IMPORT ACT OF 1978, BY SETTING THE MINIMUM LEVEL OF MEAT IMPORTS AT 739 MILLION POUNDS PER YEAR RATHER THAN 1.2 BILLION POUNDS PER YEAR.

131 yea · 139 nay137 not voting or present
Democrat75 yea · 113 nay
Republican67 yea · 37 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 11545

Meat Import Act

Policy area: Import restrictions — 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(0.95): Lowers allowable meat imports floor, restricting trade to protect domestic producers.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Import restrictions

    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 (143)

Nay (152)

Not voting or present (137)

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