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House Roll Call 1079, 105th Congress · September 24, 1998

H.R.3736 BY SMITH, LAMAR (R-TX) -- IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT, AMENDMENT (HOUSE REJECTED THE WATT OF NORTH CAROLINA AMENDMENT IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE THAT TEMPORARILY INCREASES H-1B PROGRAM VISAS FROM 65,000 TO 95,000 IN 1998, 105,000 IN 1999, 115,000 IN 2000; AND THEN RETURNS TO 65,000 IN 2001 IN SUBSEQUENT YEARS. THE INCREASES ARE OFFSET BY A DECREASE IN H-2B VISAS ALLOWED EACH YEAR.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

177 yea · 242 nayFailed15 not voting or present
Democrat157 yea · 37 nay
Republican20 yea · 204 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3736 ↗

Temporary Access to Skilled Workers and H-1B Nonimmigrant Program Improvement Act of 1998

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(0.95): The amendment increases the cap on H-1B visas, expanding legal immigration.

    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 (177)

Nay (242)

Not voting or present (15)

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