Senate Roll Call 108, 101st Congress · July 12, 1989
To strike out the employment creation visa category. — TO AMEND S 358, IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1989, TO GET RID OF THE CATEGORY ALLOWING EMPLOYMENT CREATION VISAS.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Immigration Act of 1990
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(0.95): Striking a visa category restricts overall legal immigration pathways.
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 (43)
- Brockman Adams
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
Nay (56)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- John B. Breaux
- Conrad Burns
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Herb Kohl
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Not voting or present (1)
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
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