House Roll Call 1556, 112th Congress · November 30, 2012

To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to promote innovation, investment, and research in the United States, to eliminate the diversity immigrant program, and for other purposes

Question before the chamber: On Passage

245 yea · 139 nayPassed48 not voting or present

Democrat27 yea · 134 nay

Republican217 yea · 5 nay

Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6429 ↗

STEM Jobs Act of 2012

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.

ImmigrationDirection unreadable — not scored
excluded:model-unclear (0.85) The measure both creates STEM visas and eliminates diversity visas, moving both ways at once.
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 (245)

Nay (139)

Not voting or present (48)

W. Todd AkinDid not vote
Tammy BaldwinDid not vote
Ron BarberDid not vote
Howard L. BermanDid not vote
Brian P. BilbrayDid not vote
Diane BlackDid not vote
Jo BonnerDid not vote
Dan BorenDid not vote
Dan BurtonDid not vote
Russ CarnahanDid not vote
Ben ChandlerDid not vote
Jerry F. CostelloDid not vote
John Abney CulbersonDid not vote
Diana DeGetteDid not vote
Donna F. EdwardsDid not vote
Chaka FattahDid not vote
Bob FilnerDid not vote
Rodney P. FrelinghuysenDid not vote
Elton GalleglyDid not vote
Alcee L. HastingsDid not vote
Wally HergerDid not vote
John LewisDid not vote
Donald A. ManzulloDid not vote
Tom McClintockDid not vote
Christopher MurphyDid not vote
William L. OwensDid not vote
Mike PenceDid not vote
Silvestre ReyesDid not vote
Laura RichardsonDid not vote
Steven R. RothmanDid not vote
Lucille Roybal-AllardDid not vote
Bobby L. RushDid not vote
Jean SchmidtDid not vote
Allyson Y. SchwartzDid not vote
David SchweikertDid not vote
Heath ShulerDid not vote
Michael K. SimpsonDid not vote
Louise McIntosh SlaughterDid not vote
Adam SmithDid not vote
Lamar SmithDid not vote
Jackie SpeierDid not vote
Fortney Pete StarkDid not vote
Betty SuttonDid not vote
Edolphus TownsDid not vote
Nydia M. VelázquezDid not vote
Peter J. ViscloskyDid not vote
Melvin L. WattDid not vote
Don YoungDid not vote

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