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House Roll Call 648, 105th Congress · February 12, 1998

Voter Eligibility Verification Act — H.R.1428 BY HORN (R-CA) -- VOTER ELIGIBILITY VERIFICATION ACT (HOUSE FAILED TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 1428, AMENDED, TO AMEND THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT TO ESTABLISH A SYSTEM THROUGH WHICH THE COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SECURITY AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL RESPOND TO INQUIRIES MADE BY ELECTION OFFICIALS CONCERNING THE CITIZENSHIP OF VOTING REGISTRATION APPLICANTS AND TO AMEND THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT TO PERMIT STATES TO REQUIRE INDIVIDUALS REGISTERING TO VOTE IN ELECTIONS TO PROVIDE THE INDIVIDUAL'S SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER.)

Question before the chamber: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended

210 yea · 200 nayFailed21 not voting or present
Democrat5 yea · 186 nay
Republican205 yea · 13 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1428 ↗

Voter Eligibility Verification Act

Policy area: Government Operations and Politics — 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): Establishing citizenship verification systems for voter registration imposes restrictive checks concerning non-citizens.

    Tagged by: keyword: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 (210)

Nay (200)

Not voting or present (21)

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