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Senate Roll Call 192, 110th Congress · June 6, 2007

To save American taxpayers up to $24 billion in the 10 years after passage of this Act, by preventing the earned income tax credit, which is, according to the Congressional Research Service, the largest anti-poverty entitlement program of the Federal Government, from being claimed by Y temporary workers or illegal aliens given status by this Act until they adjust to legal permanent resident status.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

56 yea · 41 nayAmendment Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat14 yea · 34 nay
Republican42 yea · 5 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1348

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(0.95): Barring temporary workers or legalizing immigrants from tax credit benefits restricts immigrant entitlements.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Immigration

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

  • TaxesA yea counts toward “Raise revenue”

    model(0.90): Denying a tax credit reduces tax expenditure, raising net revenue.

    Tagged by: keyword:income tax,tax credit

    Axis: Raise revenue ← → Cut taxes

Who voted which way

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

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