Senate Roll Call 367, 97th Congress · November 12, 1981
TO AMEND THE PERCY AMENDMENT TO S. 1112 WITH AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE. THE ORIGINAL PERCY AMENDMENT REQUIRES AN AFFIRMATIVE VOTE BY JOINT RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS IN ANY FUTURE INSTANCE OF SELECTIVE EMBARGO OF AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, CLARIFYING NATIONAL SECURITY CONTROL TO EXCLUDE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; AND IF THE PRESIDENT SELECTIVELY (CONTINUED) EMBARGOES AGRICULTURAL TRADE PRODUCTS, THE PRESIDENT WOULD NEED JOINT RESOLUTION OF APPROVAL AND CONGRESS WOULD HAVE SIXTY DAYS TO APPROVE. THE PERCY SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT RETAINS THIS LANGUAGE, BUT REQUIRES THE EMBARGO PROVISION TO GO INTO EFFECT JANUARY 1, 1985 INSTEAD OF UPON THE ENACTMENT OF THE BILL. (MOTION PASSED) SEE NOTE(S) 16
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Export Administration Amendments Act of 1981
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(0.80): Delays restrictions on agricultural embargoes, making executive trade sanctions easier to maintain.
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 (68)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Harrison Hagan Schmitt
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (20)
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- J. James Exon
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- William Proxmire
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
Not voting or present (12)
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Samuel Ichiye HayakawaDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Patrick J. LeahyDid not vote
- Carl LevinDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Robert William PackwoodDid not vote
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