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Senate Roll Call 518, 109th Congress · May 25, 2006

To limit the total number of aliens, including spouses and children, granted employment-based legal permanent resident status to 650,000 during any fiscal year.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

51 yea · 47 nayAmendment Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat18 yea · 25 nay
Republican32 yea · 21 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 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(0.90): Imposes a strict numerical limit on employment-based permanent resident visas.

    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 (51)

Nay (47)

Not voting or present (2)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.