Senate Roll Call 47, 104th Congress · January 26, 1995
To provide for unreimbursed costs to States due to the imposition of enforceable duties on the States regarding illegal immigrants of the Federal Government's failure to fully enforce immigration laws. — S.1 BY KEMPTHORNE (R-ID) -- UNFUNDED MANDATES REFORM ACT OF 1995 (PUB. L. 104-4, APPROVED 3/22/95) (SENATE TABLED BOXER AMENDMENT NO. 201, TO PROVIDE FOR UNREIMBURSED COSTS TO STATES DUE TO THE IMPOSITION OF ENFORCEABLE DUTIES ON THE STATES REGARDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS OR THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S FAILURE TO FULLY ENFORCE IMMIGRATION LAWS.)
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995
Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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.
- ImmigrationDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) State reimbursements for immigration costs concern intergovernmental fiscal mandates rather than border policy.
Tagged by: keyword: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 (58)
- Spencer Abraham
- John Ashcroft
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Christopher S. Bond
- George Hanks Brown
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Michael DeWine
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- William H. Frist
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Rod Grams
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- James M. Inhofe
- James M. Jeffords
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- J. Robert Kerrey
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Larry Lee Pressler
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Richard J. Santorum
- Richard C. Shelby
- Robert Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Craig Thomas
- Fred Thompson
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John W. Warner
Nay (40)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- Kent Conrad
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Byron L. Dorgan
- J. James Exon
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Tom Harkin
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Patty Murray
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Paul Martin Simon
- Paul David Wellstone
Not voting or present (2)
- Jesse HelmsDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
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