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House Roll Call 808, 105th Congress · May 21, 1998

(HOUSE AGREED TO THE TRAFICANT AMENDMENT THAT AUTHORIZES THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE TO ASSIGN MEMBERS OF THE ARMED FORCES, UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES AND SUBJECT TO CERTAIN CONDITIONS, TO ASSIST THE IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE AND THE CUSTOMS SERVICE IN MONITORING AND PATROLLING OUR BORDERS.)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

288 yea · 132 nayAgreed to13 not voting or present
Democrat84 yea · 116 nay
Republican204 yea · 15 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 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 “Restrictive”

    model(0.90): Authorizing military forces for border patrolling increases restrictive border enforcement.

    Tagged by: keyword:immigration,naturalization

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

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

    model(0.90): Authorizing military personnel for border patrol expands the scope and deployment of armed forces.

    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 (288)

Nay (132)

Not voting or present (13)

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