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House Roll Call 937, 104th Congress · March 20, 1996

H.R.2202 BY SMITH, LAMAR (R-TX) -- IMMIGRATION IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST ACT OF 1995 (HOUSE REJECTED THE BEILENSON AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO DELETE THE $12 MILLION AUTHORIZATION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF 14 MILES OF TRIPLE FENCING ALONG THE SAN DIEGO BORDER WITH MEXICO; AND INSTEAD SOUGHT TO AUTHORIZE $110 MILLION FOR THE INS TO INSTALL BARRIERS AND ROADS AND REMOVE OBSTACLES TO THE DETECTION OF ILLEGAL ENTRY ALONG THE BORDER WHERE NECESSARY.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

120 yea · 291 nayFailed20 not voting or present
Democrat115 yea · 67 nay
Republican5 yea · 223 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2202 ↗

Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996

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(0.85): Striking border triple-fencing authorization reduces restrictive border measures.

    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 (120)

Nay (291)

Not voting or present (20)

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