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Senate Roll Call 531, 105th Congress · July 23, 1998

To establish a system of registries of temporary agricultural workers to provide for a sufficient supply of such workers and to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to streamline procedures for the admission and extension of stay of nonimmigrant agricultural workers, and for other purposes. — (SENATE AGREED TO SMITH OF OREGON MODIFIED AMENDMENT NO. 3258, TO ESTABLISH A SYSTEM OF REGISTRIES OF TEMPORARY AGRICULTURAL WORKERS TO PROVIDE FOR A SUFFICIENT SUPPLY OF SUCH WORKERS AND TO AMEND THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT TO STREAMLINE PROCEDURES FOR THE ADMISSION AND EXTENSION OF STAY OF NONIMMIGRANT AGRICULTURAL WORKERS. .)

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

68 yea · 31 nayAmendment Agreed to1 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 30 nay
Republican53 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2260 ↗

Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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): Streamlining admission and guest worker stay rules expands immigration opportunities.

    Tagged by: keyword:immigration

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Agricultural guest worker registry policy is not a spending or budget issue.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (68)

Nay (31)

Not voting or present (1)

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