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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

41 yea · 50 nayMotion to Table Failed9 not voting or present
Democrat33 yea · 17 nay
Republican7 yea · 33 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2991

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)

Nay (50)

Not voting or present (9)

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