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House Roll Call 262, 99th Congress · August 1, 1985

ADOPTION OF THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON HR 1460 IMPOSING SANCTIONS AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT OF SOUTH AFRICA UNTIL LAWS AND POLICIES ENFORCING "APARTHEID" AND SEGREGATION ARE ELIMINATED. (MOTION PASSED)

380 yea · 48 nay5 not voting or present
Democrat240 yea · 2 nay
Republican137 yea · 46 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1460

Anti-Apartheid Action Act of 1985

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 “Protectionist”

    model(0.90): Imposing trade sanctions restricts free trade.

    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 (380)

Nay (48)

Not voting or present (5)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.