TAIWAN RELATIONS ACT 20 YEARS OF SUCCESS TAIWAN RELATIONS ACT AT TWENTY YEARS BY CHIEN-JEN CHEN THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA— PARTNER FOR PEACE AND PROSPERITY THERE'S SOMETHING MISSING FROM THE WTO TAIWAN, REPUBLIC OF CHINA ACKNOW- LEDGEMENTS WEATHER MAP CURRENCY CONGRESSIONAL RECORD taipei.org asiannet.com GIO BOFT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS On behalf of the People of Taiwan, the Republic of China, we wish to express gratitude to the following Members of the U.S. Congress who voted to support the Taiwan Relations Act in March, 1979. United States Senate - 85 Senators Voted Yes on March 29, 1979 Armstrong Baker Baucus Bellmon Bentsen Biden Boren Boschwitz Bradley Bumpers Burdick Byrd, Harry F., Jr. Byrd, Robert C. Cannon Chafee Chiles Church Cochran Cranston Culver Danforth Dole Domenici Durenberger Durkin Eagleton Exon Ford Glenn Goldwater Gravel Hatch Hatfield Hayakawa Heflin Helms Huddleston Inouye Jackson Javits Jepsen Johnston Kassebaum Kennedy Leahy Levin Long Lugar Magnuson Mathias Matsunaga McClure McGovern Melcher Metzenbaum Morgan Muskie Nelson Nunn Packwood Pell Percy Pressler Proxmire Pryor Randolph Ribicoff Riegle Roth Sarbanes Sasser Schmitt Schweiker Stewart Stone Talmadge Thurmond Tower Tsongas Wallop Warner Weicker Williams Young Zorinsky . . The announced TRA vote on March 29, 1979 was - yeas 85, nays 4, not voting 11* United States House of Representatives - 339 Representatives Voted Yes on March 28, 1979 Abdnor Addabbo Akaka Albosta Alexander Ambro Anderson, Calif Andrews, N.C. Andrews, N. Dak. Annunzio Anthony Archer Ashley Aspin Atkinson AuCoin Bafalis Baldus Barnard Barnes Beard, R.I. Bedell Bellenson Benjamin Bennett Bereuter Bethune Bevill Biaggi Bingham Blanchard Boggs Boland Bolling Boner Bonior Bonker Bouquard Bowen Brademas Breaux Brinkley Brodhead Broomfield Brown, Calif. Brown, Ohio Buchanan Burlison Butler Byron Campbell Carr Cavanaugh Chappell Cheney Chisholm Clausen Clay Cleveland Clinger Coelho Coleman Collins, Ill. Conte Corcoran Corman Cotter Coughlin Courter DÕAmours Danielson Daschle Davis, Mich. Davis, S.C. Deckard Derrick Derwinski Dicks Dingell Dixon Dodd Donnelly Dougherty Downey Drinan Duncan, Orgeon Duncan, Tenn. Early Eckhardt Edwards, Ala. Edwards, Calif. Emery English Erdahl Erlenborn Ertel Evans, Ga. Evans, Ind. Fary Fascell Fazio Fenwick Ferraro Fish Fithian Flippo Foley Ford, Mich. Ford, Tenn. Fountain Fowler Frost Fuqua Garcia Gephardt Giaimo Gingrich Ginn Glickman Gonzalez Goodling Gore Gradison Gramm Grassley Gray Green Grisham Gudger Guyer Hagedorn Hall, Ohio Hall, Tex. Hamilton Hammerschmidt Hance Hanley Harkin Harris Harsha Heckler Hefner Heftel Hightower Hillis Hinson Holland Hollenbeck Holt Holtzman Hopkins Horton Howard Hubbard Huckaby Hughes Hutto Hyde Ichord Ireland Jacobs Jeffords Jenkins Jenrette Johnson, Calif. Johnson, Colo. Jones, N.C. Jones, Tenn. Kastenmeier Kazen Kemp Kildee Kogovsek Kostmayer LaFalce Leach, Iowa Leland Lent Levitas Lloyd Long, La. Long, Md. Lott Lowry Lujan Luken Lundine McClory McCormack McDade McEwen McHugh McKinney Madigan Maguire Markey Marks Martin Mathis Matsul Mattox Mavroules Mazzoli Mica Mikulski Miller, Calif. Mineta Minish Mitchell, Md. Mitchell, N.Y. Moakley Moffett Mollohan Montgomery Moore Moorhead, Pa. Mottl Murphy, Ill. Murphy, N.Y. Murphy, Pa. Murtha Myers, Ind. Myers, Pa. Natcher Neal Nedzi Nelson Nichols Nolan Nowak OÕBrien Oakar Oberstar Obey Ottinger Panetta Pashayan Patten Patterson Pease Perkins Peyser Pickle Preyer Price Pritchard Pursell Quayle Quillen Rahall Railsback Rangel Ratchford Regula Reuss Rhodes Richmond Rinaldo Ritter Roberts Rodino Roe Rose Rosenthal Rostenkowski Roth Russo Sabo Santini Sawyer Scheuer Schroeder Schulze Sebelius Seiberling Sensenbrenner Shannon Sharp Shuster Simon Skelton Slack Smith, Iowa Smith, Nebr. Snowe Snyder Solarz Spellman Spence St Germain Stack Stangeland Stanton Stark Steed Stockman Stokes Stratton Studds Swift Synar Tauke Taylor Thomas Thompson Traxler Treen Udall Van Deerlin Vento Volkmer Walgren Walker Wampler Waxman White Whitehurst Whitley Whittaker Whitten Williams, Mont. Williams, Ohio Wilson, Bob Wilson, C. H. Wilson, Tex. Winn Wirth Wolff, N.Y. Wolpe, Mich. Wright Wydler Wylie Yates Yatron Young, Alaska Young, Fla. Young, Mo. Zablocki Zeferetti The announced TRA vote on March 28, 1979 was - yeas 339, nays 50, present 5 and not voting 38* *Of special note, many of the U.S. Senators and Representatives who voted against the Taiwan Relations Act (TRA) in 1979 did so not because they rejected the Act but because they were not satisfied with the TRA itself, believing it could not provide sufficient protection for Taiwan and could not highlight the long-term friendship between the Republic of China (Taiwan) and the United States appropriately. THE CHINESE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDUSTRY AND COMMERCE (IN TAIWAN) TELEPHONE # 886 2 2707 0111 Back to Top