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Senate Roll Call 115, 101st Congress · July 13, 1989

To prevent distortions in the reapportionment of the House of Representatives caused by the use of census population figures which include illegal aliens. — TO TABLE THE MOYNIHAN (D, NY) AMENDMENT TO S 358, IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1989, TO DECLARE THE SHELBY AMENDMENT AS UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

56 yea · 43 nayMotion to Table Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat19 yea · 34 nay
Republican36 yea · 8 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 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 “Restrictive”

    model(0.85): Tabling kills an amendment opposing the exclusion of undocumented immigrants from census counts.

    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 (56)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (1)

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