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Their Record

Senate Roll Call 93, 111th Congress · March 10, 2009

To extend the pilot program for employment eligibility confirmation established in title IV of the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1966 for 6 years.

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

50 yea · 47 nayMotion to Table Agreed to2 not voting or present
Democrat48 yea · 8 nay
Republican0 yea · 39 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1105 ↗

Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009

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(0.85): Tabling kills a measure extending employment eligibility verification enforcement, opposing restrictive policies.

    Tagged by: keyword:immigration,immigrant

    Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive

  • Spending & BudgetDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.90) Fiscal impact of employment verification pilot program extension is incidental.

    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 (50)

Nay (47)

Not voting or present (2)

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