Senate Roll Call 389, 98th Congress · February 28, 1984
TO AMEND THE HUMPHREY AMENDMENT TO S. 2336 WITH AN AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE. S. 979 AMENDS AND REAUTHORIZES THE EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT. THE HUMPHREY AMENDMENT RESTRICTS FURTHER THE EXPORT OR RETRANSFER OF CERTAIN NUCLEAR COMPONENTS AND THE EXPORT OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY. THE MCCLURE SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT EMPHASIZES TWO PROVISIONS IN THE NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION ACT OF 1978 BY CALLING FOR THE PRESIDENT TO WORK TO EXTEND COVERAGE OF IAEA SAFEGUARDS TO ALL PEACEFUL NUCLEAR ACTIVITIES IN NON-NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATES, AND TO WORK WITH OTHER SUPPLIERS TO ADOPT A COMMON POLICY OF COMPREHENSIVE SAFEGUARDS. THE SUBSTITUTE ALSO CALLS FOR A REPORT WITHIN 12 MONTHS ON THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS SECTION OF THE EXPORT ADMINISTRATION ACT. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Export Administration Act Amendments 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.
- Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Nuclear export controls under the Export Administration Act do not directly move the military expansion axis.
Tagged by: keyword:nuclear weapons
Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion
- TradeDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Nuclear non-proliferation export restrictions concern national security rather than commercial trade policy.
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 (38)
- James Abdnor
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Porter East
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Charles Harting Percy
- James Danforth Quayle
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (55)
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Chuck Grassley
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (7)
- William Sebastian CohenDid not vote
- Alan CranstonDid not vote
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.Did not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Walter Darlington HuddlestonDid not vote
- Warren Bruce RudmanDid not vote
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