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House Roll Call 954, 104th Congress · March 21, 1996

Immigration Act of 1995 — (HOUSE REJECTED THE BRYANT MOTION TO RECOMMIT THE BILL TO THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY WITH INSTRUCTIONS TO REPORT IT BACK FORTHWITH CONTAINING AN AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO MAKE CHANGES RELATING TO H 1B NONIMMIGRANT WORKER REGULATIONS DESIGNED TO PROTECT UNITED STATES WORKERS FROM BEING LAID OFF AND REPLACED BY TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKERS.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

188 yea · 231 nayFailed12 not voting or present
Democrat172 yea · 12 nay
Republican15 yea · 219 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 “Restrictive”

    model(0.90): Instructing restrictions on foreign guest worker visas restricts immigration to protect domestic workers.

    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 (188)

Nay (231)

Not voting or present (12)

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