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House Roll Call 807, 105th Congress · May 21, 1998

(HOUSE REJECTED THE REYES AMENDMENT TO THE TRAFICANT AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO REQUIRE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OR THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY TO SUBMIT A REQUEST TO THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PRIOR TO THE ASSIGNMENT OF ARMED FORCES PERSONNEL TO ASSIST THE IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE AND CUSTOMS SERVICE.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

179 yea · 243 nayFailed11 not voting or present
Democrat168 yea · 32 nay
Republican10 yea · 211 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3616 ↗

Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999

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 “Expansive”

    model(0.85): Placing hurdles on deploying military forces for border control reduces restrictive border enforcement.

    Tagged by: keyword:immigration,naturalization

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

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

    model(0.85): Requiring executive requests before assigning troops to border patrol imposes procedural restraints on military deployment.

    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 (179)

Nay (243)

Not voting or present (11)

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