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House Roll Call 370, 101st Congress · January 24, 1990

WITH INSTRUCTIONS CHINESE ADJUSTMENT OF STATUS FACILITATION ACT — TO REFER HR 2712, CHINESE IMMIGRATION RELIEF, TO THE FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND JUDICIARY COMMITTEES WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO CONSIDER THE MERITS OF THE BUSH VETO IN LIGHT OF EVENTS IN CHINA.

Question before the chamber: REFER BILL AND VETO JOINTLY TO FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND JUD.

137 yea · 276 nayFailed13 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 238 nay
Republican138 yea · 40 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2712 ↗

Emergency Chinese Immigration Relief Act of 1989

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(0.85): Referring the presidential veto to committee sidesteps an override, sustaining restrictive immigration policy.

    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 (139)

Nay (279)

Not voting or present (13)

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.