Senate Roll Call 182, 110th Congress · June 5, 2007
To eliminate the preference given to people who entered the United States illegally over people seeking to enter the country legally in the merit-based evaluation system for visas.
Question before the chamber: On the Amendment
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007
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): Eliminating visa evaluation preferences for individuals who entered unlawfully tightens immigration requirements.
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 (31)
- Lamar Alexander
- Wayne A. Allard
- Christopher S. Bond
- Jim Bunning
- Richard Burr
- Robert C. Byrd
- Tom Coburn
- Kent Conrad
- Bob Corker
- John Cornyn
- Jim DeMint
- Elizabeth H. Dole
- Byron L. Dorgan
- John Eric Ensign
- Michael B. Enzi
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- James M. Inhofe
- Mary L. Landrieu
- Claire McCaskill
- Mitch McConnell
- Ben Nelson
- Mark L. Pryor
- Pat Roberts
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Jeff Sessions
- Richard C. Shelby
- John E. Sununu
- John Thune
- David Vitter
Nay (62)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Evan Bayh
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Barbara Boxer
- Sherrod Brown
- Maria Cantwell
- Benjamin L. Cardin
- Thomas R. Carper
- Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- Saxby Chambliss
- Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Thad Cochran
- Norm Coleman
- Susan M. Collins
- Larry E. Craig
- Mike Crapo
- Pete V. Domenici
- Richard J. Durbin
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Lindsey Graham
- Charles T. Hagel
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Johnny Isakson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- John F. Kerry
- Amy Klobuchar
- Herb Kohl
- Jon Kyl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Mel Martinez
- Robert Menendez
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- Lisa Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Bill Nelson
- Jack Reed
- Harry Reid
- Ken Salazar
- Bernard Sanders
- Charles E. Schumer
- Gordon Harold Smith
- Olympia J. Snowe
- Arlen Specter
- Debbie Stabenow
- Ted F. Stevens
- Jon Tester
- George V. Voinovich
- John W. Warner
- Jim Webb
- Sheldon Whitehouse
- Ron Wyden
Not voting or present (6)
- Samuel D. BrownbackDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Tim JohnsonDid not vote
- Joseph I. LiebermanDid not vote
- John McCainDid not vote
- Barack ObamaDid not vote
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