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House Roll Call 701, 105th Congress · March 25, 1998

Visa Waiver Pilot Program — (HOUSE PASSED 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.)

Question before the chamber: On Passage

407 yea · 0 nayPassed23 not voting or present
Democrat183 yea · 0 nay
Republican223 yea · 0 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(0.95): Extending the Visa Waiver Pilot Program makes foreign travel into the U.S. easier, promoting expansive immigration rules.

    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 (407)

Nay (0)

None

Not voting or present (23)

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