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House Roll Call 886, 98th Congress · October 3, 1984

TO AMEND H.R. 6023, A BILL AMENDING THE TRADE ACT OF 1974 TO RENEW THE AUTHORITY FOR THE OPERATION OF THE GENERALIZED SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES. THE GEPHARDT AMENDMENT REMOVES TAIWAN, HONG KONG, AND SOUTH KOREA FROM THE LIST OF COUNTRIES ELIGIBLE FOR DUTY-FREE TREATMENT UNDER THE GENERAL SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES. (MOTION FAILED)

174 yea · 233 nay25 not voting or present
Democrat158 yea · 87 nay
Republican16 yea · 143 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6023 ↗

Generalized System of Preferences Renewal Act of 1984

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(0.95): Removing duty-free status for specified countries imposes trade restrictions.

    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 (174)

Nay (233)

Not voting or present (25)

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