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Key Votes
HR 1432 - African Growth bill - Key Vote
National Key Votes
Nita Lowey voted Yea (Passage) on this Legislation.
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Legislation - Placed on Calendar (Senate) - July 21, 1998
Legislation - Bill Passed (House) (233-186) - March 11, 1998(Key vote)
Title: African Growth bill
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Vote to pass a bill that creates a new trade and investment policy for 48 Sub-Saharan African countries.
- Bases eligibility for Sub-Saharan trade benefits on the country's progress toward creating a market-based economy, a country's human rights record, and the country's efforts to eliminate slavery, among other factors.
- Establishes United States-Sub-Saharan Africa Free Trade Area.
- Creates a United States-Sub-Saharan Africa Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum.
- Encourages the Overseas Private Investment Corporation to initiate equity funds in Sub-Saharan African countries.
- Allows the President to provide duty-free treatment for some products from eligible countries.
- Eliminates existing quotas on textiles and apparel exports to the United States from Kenya and Mauritius.
- Increases punishment for exporters that engage in illegal transshipment of goods.
Sponsors
- Philip M. Crane (IL - ) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Douglas K. 'Doug' Bereuter (NE - ) (Out Of Office)
- Sanford D. Bishop Jr. (GA - D)
- Julia M. Carson (IN - D) (Out Of Office)
- Donna Marie Christensen (VI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Eva M. Clayton (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Robert N. 'Bob' Clement (TN - D) (Out Of Office)
- Elijah E. Cummings (MD - D)
- Diana Louise DeGette (CO - D)
- Ronald V. Dellums (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Julian C. Dixon (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- David T. Dreier (CA - R) (Out Of Office)
- Vernon J. 'Vern' Ehlers (MI - R) (Out Of Office)
- Eliot L. Engel (NY - D)
- Eni FH Faleomavaega (AS - D) (Out Of Office)
- Chaka Fattah Sr. (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Floyd H. Flake (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas M. Foglietta (PA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Harold Ford Jr. (TN - D) (Out Of Office)
- Jon David Fox (PA - ) (Out Of Office)
- Jonas 'Martin' Frost III (TX - D) (Out Of Office)
- Elizabeth Furse (OR - D) (Out Of Office)
- Tony P. Hall (OH - D) (Out Of Office)
- Alcee L. 'Judge' Hastings Sr. (FL - D)
- Earl F. Hilliard Sr. (AL - ) (Out Of Office)
- Maurice D. Hinchey (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Amory 'Amo' Houghton Jr. (NY - ) (Out Of Office)
- Sheila Jackson Lee (TX - D)
- William J. Jefferson (LA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (MI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Scott L. Klug (WI - R) (Out Of Office)
- James T. 'Jim' Kolbe (AZ - R) (Out Of Office)
- Zoe Lofgren (CA - D)
- Carolyn B. Maloney (NY - D)
- Donald A. 'Don' Manzullo (IL - R) (Out Of Office)
- Robert T. Matsui (CA - ) (Out Of Office)
- James A. 'Jim' McDermott (WA - D) (Out Of Office)
- James P. 'Jim' McGovern (MA - D)
- Cynthia Ann McKinney (GA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Michael R. 'Mike' McNulty (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Carrie P. Meek (FL - ) (Out Of Office)
- Richard E. Neal (MA - D)
- Eleanor Holmes Norton (DC - D)
- Major R. Owens (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Donald M. Payne (NJ - D) (Out Of Office)
- Charles B. 'Charlie' Rangel (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Bobby L. Rush (IL - D)
- Martin Olav Sabo (MN - D) (Out Of Office)
- Robert C. 'Bobby' Scott (VA - D)
- Christopher H. Shays (CT - R) (Out Of Office)
- Edolphus 'Ed' Towns (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Melvin Luther 'Mel' Watt (NC - D) (Out Of Office)
- Robert Wexler (FL - D) (Out Of Office)
- Albert R. Wynn (MD - D) (Out Of Office)
