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Senate Roll Call 197, 95th Congress · June 14, 1977

TO AMEND H.R. 5262 BY INSTRUCTING U.S. DELEGATES TO VOTE AGAINST FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO ANY COUNTRY THAT CONSISTENTLY IS RESPONSIBLE FOR GROSS VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONALLY RECOGNIZED HUMAN RIGHTS, EXCEPT WHERE THOSE FUNDS DIRECTLY BENEFIT THE HUMAN NEEDS OF THE POPULATION OF THAT COUNTRY.

43 yea · 50 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat19 yea · 39 nay
Republican24 yea · 12 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5262

An Act to provide for increased participation by the United States in the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the Asian Development Bank, and the Asian Development Fund, 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.

  • TradeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Human rights restrictions on foreign aid do not align with the free trade versus protectionism axis.

    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 (44)

Nay (51)

Not voting or present (5)

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