Senate Roll Call 487, 109th Congress · May 16, 2006
To prohibit the granting of legal status, or adjustment of current status, to any individual who enters or entered the United States in violation of Federal law unless the border security measures authorized under Title I and section 233 are fully completed and fully operational.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006
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 “Restrictive”
model(0.95): Prohibiting legal status adjustments until border conditions are met restricts immigration.
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 (40)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Christopher S. Bond
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Richard Burr
- Robert C. Byrd
- Saxby Chambliss
- Tom Coburn
- Kent Conrad
- John Cornyn
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- William H. Frist
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Johnny Isakson
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Mitch McConnell
- Ben Nelson
- Pat Roberts
- Richard J. Santorum
- Jeff Sessions
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Debbie Stabenow
- John E. Sununu
- James M. Talent
- Craig Thomas
- John Thune
- David Vitter
- Ron Wyden
Nay (55)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Maria Cantwell
- Thomas R. Carper
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Larry E. Craig
- Mark Dayton
- Michael DeWine
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Lindsey Graham
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Daniel K. Inouye
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Bill Nelson
- Barack Obama
- Mark L. Pryor
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Ken Salazar
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Richard C. Shelby
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (5)
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- Judd A. GreggDid not vote
- Trent LottDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
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