Senate Roll Call 258, 98th Congress · September 23, 1983
TO TABLE THE HELMS AMENDMENT TO S. 869, A BILL AMENDING THE EXPORT-IMPORT BANK ACT OF 1945. THE HELMS AMENDMENT RESTRICTS INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDING TO ANY COUNTRY (CONTINUED) WHICH PRACTICES COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP. (MOTION PASSED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Export-Import Bank Amendments of 1983
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(0.85): Tabling restrictions on international funding supports open international financial engagement.
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 (45)
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- James Danforth Quayle
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Malcolm Wallop
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (30)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Robert C. Byrd
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- John Porter East
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Don Nickles
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (25)
- Max BaucusDid not vote
- Jeff BingamanDid not vote
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- David Ferdinand DurenbergerDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Paula HawkinsDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- Russell Billiu LongDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
- Daniel Patrick MoynihanDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- James Ralph SasserDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
- John Cornelius StennisDid not vote
- John Goodwin TowerDid not vote
- Paul Efthemios TsongasDid not vote
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