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House Roll Call 939, 104th Congress · March 20, 1996

(HOUSE REJECTED THE BRYANT OF TENNESSEE AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO REQUIRE PUBLIC HOSPITALS SEEKING TO RECOUP COSTS OF EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES RENDERED TO ILLEGAL ALIENS TO PROVIDE THE INS WITH IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ABOUT SUCH INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE OVER THE AGE OF 18 IN ORDER TO OBTAIN REIMBURSEMENT.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

170 yea · 250 nayFailed11 not voting or present
Democrat9 yea · 177 nay
Republican161 yea · 72 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 “Restrictive”

    model(0.95): Requiring hospitals to report illegal aliens to INS increases enforcement and is restrictive.

    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 (170)

Nay (250)

Not voting or present (11)

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