Senate Roll Call 470, 100th Congress · March 15, 1988

TO PASS S 2104, IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1988, A BILL TO SET AN ANNUAL LIMIT ON VISAS AND TO GIVE PRIORITY TO IMMIGRANTS POSSESSING SPECIAL SKILLS BENEFICIAL TO THE UNITED STATES.

88 yea · 4 nay7 not voting or present

Democrat48 yea · 1 nay

Republican41 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to change the level, and preference system for admission, of immigrants to the United States, and to provide for administrative naturalization, and for other purposes.

Policy area: Immigration — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

ImmigrationA yea counts toward “Restrictive”
model(0.80): Passing a bill that establishes an overall annual limit on visas imposes restrictions on immigration.
Tagged by: policy-area:Immigration
Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (89)

Nay (4)

Not voting or present (7)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.