House Roll Call 585, 96th Congress · November 14, 1979

TO AMEND THE FRENZEL AMENDMENT TO H.R. 2727, MEAT IMPORT QUOTAS, BY INCREASING THE MINIMUM ACCESS LEVEL FOR IMPORTED MEAT TO 1.3 BILLION POUNDS. THE FRENZEL AMENDMENT INCREASED THE MINIMUM LEVEL FROM 1.2 BILLION TO 1.25 BILLION POUNDS ANNUALLY. (MOTION FAILED)

136 yea · 266 nay30 not voting or present

Democrat104 yea · 148 nay

Republican31 yea · 117 nay

Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2727 ↗

Meat Import Act of 1979

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): Increasing minimum access levels for imported meat expands trade and lowers protectionist barriers.
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 (137)

Nay (266)

Not voting or present (30)

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