Senate Roll Call 221, 101st Congress · September 29, 1989
To prohibit the use of certain funds to count illegal aliens in the U.S. for purposes of reapportionment. — TO TABLE THE SHELBY (D, AL) AMENDMENT TO HR 2991, COMMERCE, JUSTICE AND STATE DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS, TO PROHIBIT THE INCLUSION OF ILLEGAL ALIENS IN THE CENSUS COUNT.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1990
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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.
- Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.90) A rider regarding census enumeration of illegal aliens is a policy fight, not a spending measure.
Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance
Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (41)
- Brockman Adams
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Bob Graham
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Pete Wilson
- Timothy E. Wirth
Nay (50)
- Max Baucus
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Wyche Fowler Jr.
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Carl Levin
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- James Albertus McClure
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- James Terry Sanford
- Richard C. Shelby
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (9)
- William Lester ArmstrongDid not vote
- Christopher S. BondDid not vote
- William Warren BradleyDid not vote
- Dale BumpersDid not vote
- John Claggett DanforthDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Phil GrammDid not vote
- James M. JeffordsDid not vote
- Spark Masayuki MatsunagaDid not vote
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