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House Roll Call 565, 105th Congress · November 4, 1997

Identification of Criminal Aliens — H.R.1493 BY GALLEGLY (R-CA) -- PROGRAM TO IDENTIFY ILLEGAL ALIENS IN PRISONS, ESTABLISHMENT (HOUSE AGREED TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 1493, AMENDED, TO REQUIRE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO ESTABLISH A PROGRAM IN LOCAL PRISONS TO IDENTIFY, PRIOR TO ARRAIGNMENT, CRIMINAL ALIENS AND ALIENS WHO ARE UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES.)

Question before the chamber: Suspend the rules and pass, as amended

410 yea · 2 nayPassed20 not voting or present
Democrat192 yea · 0 nay
Republican217 yea · 2 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1493 ↗

To require the Attorney General to establish a program in local prisons to identify, prior to arraignment, criminal aliens and aliens who are unlawfully present in the United States, and for other purposes.

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — 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.

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Punitive”

    model(0.90): Creates a program to identify and deport criminal aliens in prisons, taking a punitive enforcement approach.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

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

Yea (410)

Nay (2)

Not voting or present (20)

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