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Senate Roll Call 112, 101st Congress · July 13, 1989

To change the level, preference system for admission, of immigrants to the United States, and for other purposes. — TO AMEND THE SPECTER (R, PA) AMENDMENT TO S 358, IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1989, TO INCREASE THE NUMBER OF VISAS GRANTED TO PROFESSIONAL AND SKILLED WORKERS.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

22 yea · 77 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat2 yea · 51 nay
Republican20 yea · 24 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 358 ↗

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(0.95): Increasing the number of visas granted expands immigration.

    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 (22)

Nay (77)

Not voting or present (1)

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