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Senate Roll Call 301, 101st Congress · November 15, 1989

Providing that none of the funds appropriated to the Bureau of the Census shall be used to count aliens in the U.S. in violation of the immigration laws for purposes of subsection (b) of Section 141 of title 13, U.S. Code. — TO SUSTAIN THE RULING OF THE CHAIR CONCERNING A POINT OF ORDER AGAINST THE SHELBY AMENDMENT TO HR 2939, FOREIGN OPERATIONS APPROPRIATIONS.

Question before the chamber: On the Decision of the Chair

47 yea · 51 nayDecision of Chair Not Sustained2 not voting or present
Democrat38 yea · 15 nay
Republican8 yea · 35 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2939 ↗

Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990

Policy area: International Affairs — 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.

  • ImmigrationDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Sustaining decision of the chair is a procedural floor ruling.

    Tagged by: keyword:immigration

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) Sustaining decision of the chair is a procedural floor ruling.

    Tagged by: keyword:appropriations

    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 (47)

Nay (51)

Not voting or present (2)

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