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Senate Roll Call 719, 104th Congress · May 2, 1996

To provide that the emergency benefits available to illegal immigrants also are made available to legal immigrants as execptions to the deeming requirements. — (SENATE REJECTED CHAFEE/MACK AMENDMENT NO. 3840 TO AMENDMENT NO. 3743, TO PROVIDE THAT THE EMERGENCY BENEFITS AVAILABLE TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ALSO ARE MADE AVAILABLE TO LEGAL IMMIGRANTS AS EXCEPTIONS TO THE DEEMING REQUIREMENTS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

40 yea · 60 nayAmendment Rejected
Democrat32 yea · 15 nay
Republican6 yea · 45 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 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(0.90): Extending emergency benefit exceptions to legal immigrants expands eligibility for public benefits.

    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 (40)

Nay (60)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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