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Senate Roll Call 219, 111th Congress · July 8, 2009

To make the pilot program for employment eligibility confirmation for aliens permanent and to improve verification of immigration status of employees.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion

44 yea · 53 nayMotion Rejected3 not voting or present
Democrat43 yea · 12 nay
Republican0 yea · 40 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2892 ↗

Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2010

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 “Restrictive”

    model(0.90): Making employment eligibility confirmation permanent tightens border/immigration enforcement.

    Tagged by: keyword:immigration

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Employment verification policy is an immigration issue, not a spending measure.

    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 (44)

Nay (53)

Not voting or present (3)

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