| 2006-05-25 | To strike the provision prohibiting a court from staying the removal of an alien in certain circumstances.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Did not vote | Not a yea/nay |
| 2006-05-25 | To limit the total number of aliens, including spouses and children, granted employment-based legal permanent resident status to 650,000 during any fiscal year.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Did not vote | Not a yea/nay |
| 2006-05-25 | To modify the requirements for confidentiality certain information submitted by an alien seeking an adjustment of status under section 245B.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Did not vote | Direction not readable |
| 2006-05-24 | To sunset the H-2C visa program after the date that is 5 years after the date of enactment of this Act.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Did not vote | Not a yea/nay |
| 2006-05-24 | To modify the eligible requirements for blue card status and to increase the fines to be paid by aliens granted such status or legal permanent resident status.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Motion to Table | Did not vote | Not a yea/nay |
| 2006-05-24 | To enhance border security by creating a pilot SAFE Visa Program to grant visas to authorized nationals of a NAFTA or CAFTA-DR country who receive employment offers in job areas in the United States that have been certified by the Secretary of Labor as having a shortage of workers.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Did not vote | Not a yea/nay |
| 2006-05-24 | To amend title II of the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform the diversity visa program and create a program that awards visas to aliens with an advanced degree in science mathematics, technology, or engineering.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Did not vote | Not a yea/nay |
| 2006-05-24 | To fund improvements in border and interior security by assessing a $500 supplemental fee under title VI.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Did not vote | Not a yea/nay |
| 2006-05-24 | A bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Motion | Did not vote | Not a yea/nay |
| 2006-05-24 | A bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Cloture Motion | Did not vote | Not a yea/nay |
| 2006-05-24 | To implement the recommendation of the Carter-Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform to protect and secure the franchise of all United States citizens from ballots being cast illegally by non-United States citizens.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Motion to Table | Did not vote | Not a yea/nay |
| 2006-05-23 | To authorize the waiver of certain grounds of inadmissibility or removal where denial of admission or removal would result in hardship for a spouse, parent, or child who is a citizen or permanent resident alien.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Motion to Table | Did not vote | Not a yea/nay |
| 2006-05-23 | To enhance the enforcement of labor protections for United States workers and guest workers.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Motion to Table | Did not vote | Direction not readable |
| 2006-05-23 | To provide a substitute to title III.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Did not vote | Direction not readable |
| 2006-05-23 | To amend section 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act regarding restrictions on the admission of aliens.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Motion to Table | Did not vote | Direction not readable |
| 2006-05-23 | To modify the conditions under which aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States are granted legal status.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Did not vote | Direction not readable |
| 2006-05-22 | To authorize the use of the National Guard to secure the southern border of the United States.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Did not vote | Not a yea/nay |
| 2006-05-22 | To modify the wage requirements for employers seeking to hire H-2A and blue card agricultural workers.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Motion to Table | Did not vote | Direction not readable |
| 2006-05-18 | To prohibit H-2C nonimmigrants from adjusting to lawful permanent resident status.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Motion to Table | Nay | Restrictive |
| 2006-05-18 | To require aliens seeking adjustment of status under section 245B of the Immigration and Nationality Act or Deferred Mandatory Departure status under section 245C of such Act to pay a supplemental application fee, which shall be used to provide financial assistance to States for health and educational services for noncitizens.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Restrictive |
| 2006-05-18 | To establish a grant program to provide financial assistance to States and local governments for the costs of providing health care and educational services to noncitizens, and to provide additional funding for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Nay | Restrictive |
| 2006-05-18 | To declare that English is the common and unifying language of the United States, and to preserve and enhance the role of the English language.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Nay | Expansive |
| 2006-05-18 | To amend title 4 United States Code, to declare English as the national language of the United States and to promote the patriotic integration of prospective US citizens.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Restrictive |
| 2006-05-18 | To reduce document fraud, prevent identity theft, and preserve the integrity of the Social Security system, by ensuring that persons who receive an adjustment of status under this bill are not able to receive Social Security benefits as a result of unlawful activity.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Motion to Table | Nay | Restrictive |
| 2006-05-18 | To modify the conditions under which an H-2C nonimmigrant may apply for adjustment of status.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Nay | Direction not readable |
| 2006-05-17 | To modify the conditions under which an H-2C nonimmigrant may apply for an employment-based immigrant visa.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Direction not readable |
| 2006-05-17 | To strike the provisions related to certain undocumented individuals.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Restrictive |
| 2006-05-17 | To increase the amount of fencing and improve vehicle barriers installed along the southwest border of the United States.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Restrictive |
| 2006-05-17 | To make certain aliens ineligible for adjustment to lawful permanent resident status or Deferred Mandatory Departure status.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Restrictive |
| 2006-05-16 | To reduce the number of H-2C nonimmigrants to 200,000 during any fiscal year.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Motion to Table | Nay | Restrictive |
| 2006-05-16 | To prohibit aliens who are currently outside the United States from participating in the H-2C guestworker visa program.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Motion to Table | Yea | Expansive |
| 2006-05-16 | To prohibit implementation of title IV and title VI until the President determines that implementation of such titles will strengthen the national security of the United States.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Nay | Expansive |
| 2006-05-16 | To prohibit the granting of legal status, or adjustment of current status, to any individual who enters or entered the United States in violation of Federal law unless the border security measures authorized under Title I and section 233 are fully completed and fully operational.S. 2611 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Restrictive |
| 2006-04-26 | To provide, with an offset, emergency funding for border security efforts.H.R. 4939 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Nay | Expansive |
| 2006-04-26 | To provide, with an offset, emergency funding for border security efforts.H.R. 4939 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Restrictive |
| 2006-04-07 | A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for comprehensive reform and for other purposes.S. 2454 · 109th Congress · On the Cloture Motion | Yea | Expansive |
| 2006-04-07 | A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for comprehensive reform and for other purposes.S. 2454 · 109th Congress · On the Cloture Motion | Nay | Restrictive |
| 2006-04-06 | To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide for comprehensive reform and to provide conditional nonimmigrant authorization for employment to undocumented aliens, and for other purposes.S. 2454 · 109th Congress · On the Cloture Motion | Nay | Restrictive |
| 2006-04-04 | To make certain aliens ineligible for conditional nonimmigrant work authorization and status.S. 2454 · 109th Congress · On the Motion to Table | Nay | Restrictive |
| 2006-04-03 | To prescribe the binding oath or affirmation of renunciation and allegiance required to be naturalized as a citizen of the United States, to encourage and support the efforts of prospective citizens of the United States to become citizens, and for other purposes.S. 2454 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Expansive |
| 2006-04-03 | To provide financial aid to local law enforcement officials along the Nation's borders, and for other purposes.S. 2454 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Restrictive |
| 2006-03-30 | To require the Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to collect statistics, and prepare reports describing the statistics, relating to deaths occurring at the border between the United States and Mexico.S. 2454 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Direction not readable |
| 2006-03-16 | To deny funds in FY2007 for the United Nations Human Rights Council, which the United States just voted against because countries found complicit in sustained human rights abuses are eligible for Council membership. Savings redirected to border security.S.Con.Res. 83 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Restrictive |
| 2005-11-03 | To replace title VIII of the bill with an amendment to section 214(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose a fee on employers who hire certain non-immigrants.S. 1932 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Nay | Expansive |
| 2005-04-20 | To increase funding for border security.H.R. 1268 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Nay | Expansive |
| 2005-04-19 | To provide for the adjustment of status of certain foreign agricultural workers, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform the H-2A worker program under that Act, to provide a stable, legal agricultural workforce, to extend basic legal protections and better working conditions to more workers, and for other purposes.H.R. 1268 · 109th Congress · On the Cloture Motion | Nay | Restrictive |
| 2005-04-19 | To simplify the process for admitting temporary alien agricultural workers under section 101(a)(15)(H)(ii)(a) of the Immigration and Nationality Act, to increase access to such workers, and for other purposes.H.R. 1268 · 109th Congress · On the Cloture Motion | Nay | Restrictive |
| 2005-04-13 | To express the sense of the Senate that Congress should not delay enactment of critical appropriations necessary to ensure the well-being of the men and women of the United States Armed Forces fighting in Iraq and elsewhere around the world, by attempting to conduct a debate about immigration reform while the supplemental appropriations bill is pending on the floor of the United States Senate.H.R. 1268 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Direction not readable |
| 2004-09-08 | To prohibit funds from being used to process or approve a competition under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 for services provided as of June 1, 2004, by certain employees of the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services of the Department of Homeland Security.H.R. 4567 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment | Nay | Direction not readable |
| 2003-03-21 | To provide immediate assistance to meet pressing homeland security needs by providing funding in 2003 for first responders, port security, bioterrorism preparedness and prevention, border security and transit security, the FBI; to restore the elimination of funding of the COPS program, firefighter equipment grants, Byrne Grants and Local Law enforcement grants; to provide a sustained commitment of resources for homeland security needs without reducing funding to other key domestic law enforcement and public safety priorities; and to reduce the deficit.S.Con.Res. 23 · 108th Congress · On the Amendment | Nay | Direction not readable |
| 2002-04-18 | A bill to enhance the border security of the United States, and for other purposes.H.R. 3525 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Restrictive |
| 2002-04-18 | To require as a condition of a country's designation or continued designation as a program country under the Visa Waiver Program that the country reports to the United States Government the theft of blank passports issued by that country.H.R. 3525 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Restrictive |
| 2002-04-18 | To revise provisions relating to the compliance by institutions and other entities with record keeping and reporting requirements with respect to nonimmigrant students and exchange visitors.H.R. 3525 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Restrictive |
| 2000-10-03 | A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to H-1B nonimmigrant aliens.S. 2045 · 106th Congress · On Passage of the Bill | Yea | Expansive |
| 2000-09-28 | Of a perfecting nature.S. 2045 · 106th Congress · On the Cloture Motion | Yea | Direction not readable |
| 2000-09-27 | Of a perfecting nature.S. 2045 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Direction not readable |
| 2000-09-27 | No Statement of Purpose on File.S. 2045 · 106th Congress · On the Motion | Nay | Direction not readable |
| 2000-09-26 | Of a perfecting nature.S. 2045 · 106th Congress · On the Cloture Motion | Yea | Direction not readable |
| 2000-09-19 | A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to H-1B nonimmigrant aliens.S. 2045 · 106th Congress · On the Cloture Motion | Yea | Expansive |
| 1998-07-23 | To establish a system of registries of temporary agricultural workers to provide for a sufficient supply of such workers and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to streamline procedures for the admission and extension of stay of nonimmigrant agricultural workers, and for other purposes. — (SENATE AGREED TO SMITH OF OREGON MODIFIED AMENDMENT NO. 3258, TO ESTABLISH A SYSTEM OF REGISTRIES OF TEMPORARY AGRICULTURAL WORKERS TO PROVIDE FOR A SUFFICIENT SUPPLY OF SUCH WORKERS AND TO AMEND THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT TO STREAMLINE PROCEDURES FOR THE ADMISSION AND EXTENSION OF STAY OF NONIMMIGRANT AGRICULTURAL WORKERS. .)S. 2260 · 105th Congress · On the Amendment | Yea | Expansive |
| 1998-05-18 | A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to assist the United States to remain competitive by increasing the access of the United States firms and institutions of higher education to skilled personnel and by expanding educational and training opportunities for American students and workers. — (SENATE PASSED S. 1723, TO AMEND THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT TO ASSIST THE UNITED STATES TO REMAIN COMPETITIVE BY INCREASING THE ACCESS OF THE UNITED STATES FIRMS AND INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO SKILLED PERSONNEL AND BY EXPANDING EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR AMERICAN STUDENTS AND WORKERS.)S. 1723 · 105th Congress · On Passage of the Bill | Yea | Expansive |
| 1998-05-18 | To repeal the Immigrant Investor Program. — (SENATE TABLED BUMPERS AMENDMENT NO. 2416, TO REPEAL THE IMMIGRANT INVESTOR PROGRAM.)S. 1723 · 105th Congress · On the Motion to Table | Yea | Expansive |
| 1998-05-18 | To ensure that employers recruit qualified United States workers first, before applying for foreign workers under the H-1B visa program. — (SENATE TABLED KENNEDY AMENDMENT NO. 2417, TO ENSURE THAT EMPLOYERS RECRUIT QUALIFIED UNITED STATES WORKERS FIRST, BEFORE APPLYING FOR FOREIGN WORKERS UNDER THE H-1B VISA PROGRAM.)S. 1723 · 105th Congress · On the Motion to Table | Yea | Expansive |
| 1998-05-18 | To ensure that participating employers cannot lay off United States workers and replace them with temporary foreign workers under the H-1B visa program. — (SENATE TABLED KENNEDY AMENDMENT NO. 2418, TO ENSURE THAT PARTICIPATING EMPLOYERS CANNOT LAY OFF UNITED STATES WORKERS AND REPLACE THEM WITH TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKERS UNDER THE H-1B VISA PROGRAM.)S. 1723 · 105th Congress · On the Motion to Table | Yea | Expansive |
