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Senate Roll Call 343, 114th Congress · January 20, 2016

A bill to require that supplemental certifications and background investigations be completed prior to the admission of certain aliens as refugees, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

55 yea · 43 nayCloture Motion Rejected2 not voting or present
Democrat1 yea · 42 nay
Republican53 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 4038 ↗

American SAFE Act of 2015

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): Adding background checks and certifications restricts refugee admissions.

    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 (55)

Nay (43)

Not voting or present (2)

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