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House Roll Call 941, 104th Congress · March 20, 1996

(HOUSE AGREED TO THE GALLEGLY AMENDMENT THAT GIVES STATES THE OPTION TO DENY PUBLIC EDUCATION TO ILLEGAL ALIENS; AND PROVIDES THAT STATES, IF ASKED, WOULD BE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE A HEARING TO ESTABLISH WHETHER AN ALIEN IS LAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

257 yea · 163 nayAgreed to12 not voting or present
Democrat44 yea · 141 nay
Republican213 yea · 21 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): Allowing states to deny public education to illegal aliens 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 (257)

Nay (163)

Not voting or present (12)

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