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Their Record

Senate Roll Call 497, 109th Congress · May 18, 2006

To amend title 4 United States Code, to declare English as the national language of the United States and to promote the patriotic integration of prospective US citizens.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

63 yea · 34 nayAmendment Agreed to3 not voting or present
Democrat12 yea · 31 nay
Republican51 yea · 1 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2611 ↗

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(0.85): Declaring English the national language aligns with restrictive immigration policies.

    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 (63)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (3)

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