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Senate Roll Call 514, 109th Congress · May 24, 2006

To enhance border security by creating a pilot SAFE Visa Program to grant visas to authorized nationals of a NAFTA or CAFTA-DR country who receive employment offers in job areas in the United States that have been certified by the Secretary of Labor as having a shortage of workers.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

31 yea · 67 nayAmendment Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 42 nay
Republican30 yea · 23 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 “Expansive”

    model(0.85): Grants additional visas to foreign guest workers under a pilot program.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Immigration

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

  • TradeDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.80) Creating a guest worker visa program does not directly modify trade policy.

    Tagged by: keyword:nafta

    Axis: Protectionist ← → Free trade

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (31)

Nay (67)

Not voting or present (2)

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