Ben Nelson on Immigration

DemocratNE

Immigration83 votes · 82.5/100 consistent

ExpansiveRestrictive

117 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Immigration. 83 of them counted toward the score above: 24 toward “Expansive” and 59 toward “Restrictive”.

The other 34 did not count: 31 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 3 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
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	Yea	Restrictive
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	Yea	Expansive
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	Yea	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	Did not vote	Not a yea/nay
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	Did not vote	Not a yea/nay
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	Did not vote	Not a yea/nay

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Expansive / Restrictive axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.