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Senate Roll Call 295, 109th Congress · November 3, 2005

To replace title VIII of the bill with an amendment to section 214(c) of the Immigration and Nationality Act to impose a fee on employers who hire certain non-immigrants.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

14 yea · 85 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat10 yea · 33 nay
Republican3 yea · 51 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1932 ↗

Deficit Reduction Act of 2005

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 “Restrictive”

    model(0.85): Imposing a fee on employers hiring non-immigrants restricts guest worker/immigrant hiring.

    Tagged by: keyword:immigration

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

  • Spending & BudgetA yea counts toward “Fiscal restraint”

    model(0.75): Imposing employer fees increases federal receipts, supporting fiscal restraint.

    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 (14)

Nay (85)

Not voting or present (1)

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