Senate Roll Call 109, 101st Congress · July 12, 1989
To prevent the reduction of family preference immigration below the level set in current law. — TO AMEND S 358, IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1989, TO RULE OUT REDUCING FAMILY PREFERENCE IMMIGRATION BELOW CURRENT LEVELS.
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 “Expansive”
model(0.90): Preventing a reduction in family preference immigration preserves expansive immigration levels.
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 (62)
- Brockman Adams
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Kent Conrad
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- James M. Jeffords
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Charles S. Robb
- James Terry Sanford
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (36)
- William Lester Armstrong
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Christopher S. Bond
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Chuck Grassley
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Larry Lee Pressler
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Richard C. Shelby
- Paul Martin Simon
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- J. Strom Thurmond
Not voting or present (2)
- Daniel CoatsDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
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