Senate Roll Call 489, 109th Congress · May 16, 2006
To prohibit aliens who are currently outside the United States from participating in the H-2C guestworker visa program.
Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table
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 “Expansive”
model(0.90): Tabling kills a provision restricting non-US aliens from joining the guestworker program.
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 (69)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- George Felix Allen
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Samuel D. Brownback
- Jim Bunning
- Conrad Burns
- Richard Burr
- Maria Cantwell
- Thomas R. Carper
- Lincoln D. Chafee
- Saxby Chambliss
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- John Cornyn
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Jim DeMint
- Michael DeWine
- Pete V. Domenici
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Russell D. Feingold
- William H. Frist
- Lindsey Graham
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Charles T. Hagel
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- Johnny Isakson
- James M. Jeffords
- Tim Johnson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Bill Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Ken Salazar
- Richard J. Santorum
- Richard C. Shelby
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- John E. Sununu
- Craig Thomas
- John Thune
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
Nay (28)
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Barbara Boxer
- Robert C. Byrd
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Tom Coburn
- Kent Conrad
- Mark Dayton
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Byron L. Dorgan
- Richard J. Durbin
- Dianne Feinstein
- Tom Harkin
- James M. Inhofe
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Carl Levin
- Ben Nelson
- Barack Obama
- Jack Reed
- Pat Roberts
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Charles E. Schumer
- Jeff Sessions
- Debbie Stabenow
- James M. Talent
- David Vitter
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (3)
- Thad CochranDid not vote
- Trent LottDid not vote
- John D. Rockefeller, IVDid not vote
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