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Senate Roll Call 58, 98th Congress · April 20, 1983

TO CLOSE DEBATE (INVOKE CLOTURE) ON THE KASTEN AMENDMENT TO S.144, THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT ACT. THE KASTEN AMENDMENT WOULD REPEAL THE WITHOLDING FOF TAX FROM INTEREST AND DIVIDENDS. (MOTION FAILED; 3/5 REQUIRED)

39 yea · 59 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat37 yea · 9 nay
Republican2 yea · 50 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 144 ↗

International Trade and Investment Act

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.

  • TradeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Repealing tax withholding on interest and dividends is a domestic tax issue, not 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 (39)

Nay (59)

Not voting or present (2)

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