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House Roll Call 700, 105th Congress · March 25, 1998

H.R.2578 BY SMITH, LAMAR (R-TX) -- IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT, AMENDMENT (HOUSE AGREED TO THE POMBO AMENDMENT THAT INCREASES THE NON-IMMIGRANT VISA REFUSAL RATE FROM 2 PERCENT TO 3 PERCENT. .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

360 yea · 46 nayAgreed to25 not voting or present
Democrat179 yea · 4 nay
Republican180 yea · 42 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2578 ↗

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to extend the visa waiver pilot program, and to provide for the collection of data with respect to the number of non-immigrants who remain in the United States after the expiration of the period of stay authorized by the Attorney General.

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(0.90): Increasing the acceptable visa refusal threshold allows more countries into the Visa Waiver Program, expanding entry.

    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 (360)

Nay (46)

Not voting or present (25)

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