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Senate Roll Call 98, 109th Congress · April 19, 2005

To provide for the adjustment of status of certain foreign agricultural workers, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to reform the H-2A worker program under that Act, to provide a stable, legal agricultural workforce, to extend basic legal protections and better working conditions to more workers, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

53 yea · 45 nayCloture Motion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat37 yea · 5 nay
Republican14 yea · 40 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1268 ↗

Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005

Policy area: Economics and Public Finance — 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): Cloture advances legislation expanding legal status adjustments and foreign worker program reforms.

    Tagged by: keyword:immigration

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.85) The measure primarily addresses immigration status and worker protections rather than fiscal policy.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Economics and Public Finance

    Axis: Fiscal expansion ← → Fiscal restraint

Who voted which way

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

Yea (53)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (2)

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