Senate Roll Call 301, 99th Congress · November 13, 1985
TO TABLE THE GRAMM, TX) AMENDMENT TO HR 1562, TO EXEMPT A COUNTRY FROM PROVISIONS IN THE BILL THAT LIMIT EXPORTS TO THE U.S. IF THE PRESIDENT DEEMS THAT ITS TARIFFS AND QUOTAS ON IMPORTS FROM THE U.S. ARE LESS RESTRICTIVE.
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Textile and Apparel Trade Enforcement 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): Tabling an amendment exempting countries from import limits maintains protectionist quotas.
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 (68)
- James Abdnor
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Mitch McConnell
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Nay (30)
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Daniel Jackson Evans
- J. James Exon
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- James Albertus McClure
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- James Danforth Quayle
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Malcolm Wallop
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (2)
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- John F. KerryDid not vote
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