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House Roll Call 952, 104th Congress · March 21, 1996

(HOUSE REJECTED THE GOODLATTE AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO MODIFY THE CURRENT AGRICULTURAL GUEST WORKER PROGRAM BY TRANSFERRING FROM THE LABOR DEPARTMENT TO THE IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE; TO PROVIDE FOR NO MORE THAN 100,000 FOREIGN WORKERS TO BE ADMITTED UNDER THE PROGRAM EACH YEAR; TO SHORTEN FROM 60 DAYS TO 40 DAYS THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF THE TIME IN ADVANCE OF NEEDING WORKERS THAT EMPLOYERS COULD BE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT PETITIONS; AND TO LIMIT TO 20 DAYS THE TIME PERIOD DURING WHICH THE DEPARTMENT COULD REQUIRE AN EMPLOYER TO CONDUCT ACTIVE RECRUITMENT EFFORTS FOR ELIGIBLE WORKERS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

59 yea · 357 nayFailed15 not voting or present
Democrat5 yea · 178 nay
Republican54 yea · 178 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(0.85): Imposing a cap and limits on foreign guest worker recruitment restricts guest worker immigration.

    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 (59)

Nay (357)

Not voting or present (15)

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