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101st Congress > House > Vote 744

Date: October 01, 1990

Result: 411-0 (Passed)

Clerk session vote number: 396

Vote Subject Matter: Foreign and Defense Policy / Foreign Policy Resolutions

Sponsor: YATRON, Gus (D-PA)

Bill number: HCONRES329

Question: SUSPEND THE RULES AND AGREE

Description: REGARDING COUNTRIES WHICH VIOLATE THE MORATORIUM ON COMMERCIAL WHALING

Bill summary: Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that: (1) continued whaling and commercialization of whale meat are a violation of the International Whaling Commission moratorium; (2) the Secretary of Commerce should certify any nation for continued whaling activities rejected as scientifically invalid by the Commission; (3) the President should order an embargo on a significant quantity of fishery products from nations found to be diminishing the effectiveness of the International Whaling Convention; (4) the President should use all diplomatic tools to convince whaling nations to comply with decisions of the Commission; and (5) the President should use all diplomatic tools to encourage support of Commission member nations for a long-term solution to problems before the Commission.

Bill titles: Calling for United States sanctions against nations which conduct unjustified lethal whale research, and otherwise expressing the sense of the Congress with regard to nations which violate the International Whaling Commission moratorium on commerical whaling by killing whales under the guise of scientific research.

Original source documents: Digest of the Congressional Record vol. 136, p. 8550;

Links for more info on the vote: congress.gov

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