Paying The Piper-Part Five-Trade With "China"

First, I am skipping ahead to "Part Five," but I will be backtracking to more about President Obama in Part Four.

This bill, H.R. 4444, established "normal" trade relations with China (mainland). It was sometimes referred to as the "China Trade Bill:"

Vote in House Of Representatives, May 24, 2000:
Yes: 237 (73 Democrats- 163 Republicans) No: 197 (135 Democrats- 59 Republicans-1 Independent) Not Voting: 1 (Republican)

Vote in Senate, September 19, 2000:
Yes: 83 (32 Democrats- 40 Republicans) No: 15 (7 Democrats- 7 Republicans-1 Independent) Not Voting: 2 (Democrats)

Signed into law by President Bill Clinton, October 10, 2000.

WORD HISTORY:
Vote-I found a reference to a possible Indo European base, but I found no other source supporting that base, so I'll leave that part open. "Vote" goes back to the Latin participle form of "vovere," which was "votus," and this gave Latin the noun form "votom/votum." The meaning of the Latin terms were "vow, promise, wish." In the mid 1500s, English borrowed the terms, but with the still prevalent meanings of modern English: "a wish for a desired candidate or issue" (noun) and the verb form, "to express a desire for a candidate or issue."