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House Roll Call 222, 105th Congress · June 20, 1997

(HOUSE AGREED TO THE TRAFICANT AMENDMENT THAT AUTHORIZES THE ASSIGNMENT OF UP TO 10,000 DOD PERSONNEL TO ASSIST BORDER PATROL AND CONTROL BY THE IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE AND THE CUSTOMS SERVICE AT THE REQUEST OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL IN THE CASE OF THE INS OR THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY IN THE CASE OF THE CUSTOMS SERVICE.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

269 yea · 119 nayAgreed to46 not voting or present
Democrat76 yea · 109 nay
Republican193 yea · 9 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1119 ↗

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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(0.90): Deploying military personnel to assist border enforcement aims to restrict unauthorized border crossings.

    Tagged by: keyword:immigration,naturalization

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

  • Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military expansion”

    model(0.85): Authorizing military personnel for domestic border enforcement expands the domestic deployment of armed forces.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

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

Yea (269)

Nay (119)

Not voting or present (46)

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