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Senate Roll Call 840, 104th Congress · July 23, 1996

To permit assistance to be provided to needy or disabled legal immigrant children when sponsors cannot provide reimbursement. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN NOT HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE REJECTED A MOTION TO WAIVE THE CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET ACT WITH RESPECT TO CONSIDERATION OF KENNEDY AMENDMENT NO. 4955, TO PERMIT ASSISTANCE TO BE PROVIDED TO NEEDY OR DISABLED LEGAL IMMIGRANT CHILDREN WHEN SPONSORS CANNOT PROVIDE REIMBURSEMENT.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

51 yea · 48 nayMotion Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat45 yea · 2 nay
Republican4 yea · 46 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1956 ↗

Personal Responsibility, Work Opportunity, and Medicaid Restructuring Act of 1996

Policy area: Social Welfare — 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): Waiving the budget act advances assistance for legal immigrant children, expanding benefits.

    Tagged by: keyword:immigrant

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (51)

Nay (48)

Not voting or present (1)

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