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Senate Roll Call 709, 104th Congress · April 30, 1996

To enable employers to determine work eligibility of prospective employees without fear of being used. — (SENATE REJECTED THE KENNEDY AMENDMENT NO. 3816 TO AMENDMENT NO. 3743, TO ENABLE EMPLOYERS TO DETERMINE WORK ELIGIBILITY OF PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYEES WITHOUT FEAR OF BEING SUED.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

32 yea · 67 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat32 yea · 15 nay
Republican0 yea · 50 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 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 “Restrictive”

    model(0.85): Facilitating employer verification of work eligibility strengthens immigration enforcement.

    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 (32)

Nay (67)

Not voting or present (1)

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