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House Roll Call 185, 101st Congress · August 1, 1989

TO SUSTAIN A POINT OF ORDER AGAINST THE RIDGE AMENDMENT TO HR 2991, COMMERCE, STATE AND JUSTICE APPROPRIATIONS, TO RESTRICT THE USE OF APPROPRIATED FUNDS TO COUNT THE UNDOCUMENTED ALIENS IN THE 1990 CENSUS.

288 yea · 134 nay9 not voting or present
Democrat232 yea · 9 nay
Republican55 yea · 124 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2991 ↗

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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(0.85): Sustaining the point of order blocks an anti-immigrant amendment, preserving counting of undocumented immigrants.

    Tagged by: keyword:undocumented

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) This vote is a floor procedure regarding a policy rider on census counting, not budget levels.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

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

Yea (288)

Nay (134)

Not voting or present (9)

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