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House Roll Call 950, 104th Congress · March 21, 1996

H.R.2202 BY SMITH, LAMAR (R-TX) -- IMMIGRATION IN THE NATIONAL INTEREST ACT OF 1995 (HOUSE AGREED TO THE CHRYSLER AMENDMENT, AS MODIFIED, THAT STRIKES LANGUAGE PLACING NEW LIMITS ON THE NUMBER OF LEGAL IMMIGRANTS ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTRY ANNUALLY, AND THE SPECIFIC CATEGORIES OF THOSE IMMIGRANTS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

238 yea · 183 nayAgreed to10 not voting or present
Democrat162 yea · 24 nay
Republican75 yea · 159 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 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(0.95): Striking new limits on legal immigration is an expansive action.

    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 (238)

Nay (183)

Not voting or present (10)

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