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Senate Roll Call 590, 98th Congress · August 8, 1984

TO DETERMINE IF THE PELL AMENDMENT TO H.R. 6040 IS GERMANE. THE PELL AMENDMENT EXPRESSES THE SENSE OF THE CONGRESS THAT TAIWAN'S FUTURE SHOULD BE SETTLED PEACEFULLY, FREE OF COERCION, AND IN A MANNER ACCEPTABLE TO THE PEOPLE ON TAIWAN AND CONSISTENT WITH THE TAIWAN RELATIONS ACT ENACTED BY THE CONGRESS AND WITH THE COMMUNIQUES ENTERED INTO BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. (RULED NOT GERMANE) SEE NOTE(S) 31

23 yea · 69 nay8 not voting or present
Democrat23 yea · 18 nay
Republican0 yea · 51 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6040 ↗

Second Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1984

Policy area: Economics and Public 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.

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (1.00) Germaneness rulings are floor procedure.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (23)

Nay (69)

Not voting or present (8)

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