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Senate Roll Call 536, 100th Congress · April 28, 1988

TO INVOKE CLOTURE, THEREBY LIMITING DEBATE ON HR 4222, EXTENSION OF THE IMMIGRANT LEGALIZATION PROGRAM, A BILL TO EXTEND AMNESTY PROGRAM FOR ELIGIBLE IMMIGRANTS. MOTION REJECTED, THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE.

40 yea · 56 nay4 not voting or present
Democrat35 yea · 18 nay
Republican5 yea · 38 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4222 ↗

A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend for 6 months the application period under the legalization program.

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 “Expansive”

    model(0.90): Cloture advances a bill extending amnesty and legal status for eligible immigrants.

    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 (40)

Nay (56)

Not voting or present (4)

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