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Their Record

Senate Roll Call 498, 109th Congress · May 18, 2006

To declare that English is the common and unifying language of the United States, and to preserve and enhance the role of the English language.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

58 yea · 39 nayAmendment Agreed to3 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 0 nay
Republican13 yea · 39 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 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 unifying language reflects a restrictive cultural integration stance.

    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 (58)

Nay (39)

Not voting or present (3)

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