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Senate Roll Call 623, 99th Congress · August 15, 1986

TO ADOPT THE BYRD AMENDMENT TO S 2701, THE COMPREHENSIVE ANTI-APARTHEID ACT, WHICH WOULD SET FORTH A FRAMEWORK AND PROVIDE GUIDANCE SO AS TO ENCOURAGE AND FACILITATE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL STABILITY IN SOUTH AFRICA, WOULD PROHIBIT THE IMPORTATION OF URANIUM, COAL, TEXTILES AND FLUORSPAR FROM SOUTH AFRICA, AND WOULD ESTABLISH THE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WEST-CENTRAL AFRICAN AFFAIRS AND THE OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF STATE FOR SOUTH AND EAST AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

45 yea · 54 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat44 yea · 4 nay
Republican1 yea · 50 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2701 ↗

Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986

Policy area: International Affairs — 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.

  • Climate & EnergyDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Anti-apartheid trade sanction, not a climate or energy measure.

    Tagged by: keyword:coal

    Axis: Climate action ← → Fossil fuel priority

Who voted which way

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

Yea (45)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (1)

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