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Senate Roll Call 615, 98th Congress · September 19, 1984

TO TABLE THE SPECTER AMENDMENT TO H.R. 3398, A BILL MAKING CERTAIN CHANGES IN THE TARIFF TREATMENT OF SPECIFIED ARTICLES, AND GRANTING DUTY-FREE TREATMENT TO SPECIFIED ARTICLES. THE SPECTER AMENDMENT AMENDS THE UNFAIR COMPETITION ACT OF 1916 AND THE CLAYTON ACT, TO PROVIDE FOR FURTHER RELIEF IN THE EVENT OF UNFAIR FOREIGN COMPETITION. (MOTION PASSED)

61 yea · 36 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat22 yea · 23 nay
Republican39 yea · 13 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3398 ↗

Omnibus Tariff and Trade 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 “Free trade”

    model(0.90): Tabling kills an amendment providing protectionist relief against foreign competition.

    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 (61)

Nay (36)

Not voting or present (3)

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