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Senate Roll Call 699, 104th Congress · April 25, 1996

To prohibit foreign students on F-1 visas from obtaining free public elementary or secondary education. — (SENATE TABLED THE SIMPSON AMENDMENT NO. 3669, TO PROHIBIT FOREIGN STUDENTS ON F-1 VISAS FROM OBTAINING FREE PUBLIC ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY EDUCATION.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

53 yea · 46 nayMotion to Table Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 45 nay
Republican51 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1664 ↗

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(0.85): Tabling kills a restriction that would ban foreign students from public education.

    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 (53)

Nay (46)

Not voting or present (1)

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