To authorize the extension of nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Vietnam.
Latest action. On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the yeas and naysThe constitutional right of one-fifth of those present to force every member's vote onto the public record. The mechanism behind every roll call you can look up.Read the full definition (opens a new tab): (2/3 required): 228 - 161 (Roll no. 519). (text: continuing resolutionA stopgap law funding the government at existing levels when the annual appropriations bills are not done by October 1.Read the full definition (opens a new tab) H8595-8596)
Authorizes the President to extend nondiscriminatory treatment (normal trade relations treatment) to the products of Vietnam.
Written by analysts at the Congressional Research Service and published on Congress.gov, not by Civibrief. Summarized at the "Introduced in House" stage on June 13, 2006. It describes the bill, it is not the legal text.
Where is it in the process, and what happens next?
This bill failed the vote the record describes below. A measure that fails is not revived; the same text has to be introduced again as a new measure.
The record's latest action, on November 13, 2006: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Failed by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 228 - 161 (Roll no. 519). (text: CR H8595-8596)
Has anyone actually voted on it?
No. No roll call in this Congress cites this measure. That is the ordinary outcome: most measures never reach a recorded floor vote, and a committee ends most of them simply by not acting.
A vote is not the only thing that happens to a measure. Hearings, markups, and referrals are all recorded actions, and none of them is a vote of the full chamber.
Who is behind it?
JIM RAMSTAD (R-MN) introduced it on June 13, 2006, and 47 members have since signed on as cosponsors.
They come from both major parties: 27 Democrats, 20 Republicans.
Cosponsoring is a formal signature on the text. It is not a commitment to vote for the measure, it does not bind anyone's party, and a long list of cosponsors is a measure of attention rather than of prospects.
Every answer above is assembled from this measure's own record on Congress.gov and from published counts of what Congress has passed before. Civibrief does not predict outcomes and takes no position on any measure.
Vote history
- HouseDid not advance · November 13, 2006
- SenateNot reached
- PresidentNot reached