House Roll Call 670, 96th Congress · December 20, 1979

TO PASS H.R. 2816, REVISING THE PROCEDURES FOR THE ADMISSION OF REFUGEES. (MOTION PASSED)

328 yea · 47 nay56 not voting or present

Democrat216 yea · 14 nay

Republican112 yea · 33 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 2816 ↗

Refugee Act of 1979

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 “Expansive”
model(0.95): Revising and expanding refugee admission procedures expands immigration.
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 (330)

Nay (47)

Not voting or present (56)

Joseph Patrick AddabboDid not vote
Donald Joseph AlbostaDid not vote
John Bayard AndersonDid not vote
Mark AndrewsDid not vote
Thomas Ludlow AshleyDid not vote
Robin Leo Beard Jr.Did not vote
Jack Bascom BrooksDid not vote
Clarence J. Brown Jr.Did not vote
Clair Walter BurgenerDid not vote
Phillip BurtonDid not vote
Thomas A. DaschleDid not vote
Huey Joel DeckardDid not vote
Edward Joseph DerwinskiDid not vote
Julian C. DixonDid not vote
Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
William Donlon EdwardsDid not vote
Geraldine Anne FerraroDid not vote
Daniel John FloodDid not vote
Harold Eugene FordDid not vote
William David FordDid not vote
Don FuquaDid not vote
Joseph Matthew GaydosDid not vote
Robert Nicholas GiaimoDid not vote
Ronald Bryan GinnDid not vote
Jon Clifton HinsonDid not vote
Kenneth Lamar HollandDid not vote
Marjorie Sewell HoltDid not vote
James Marvin LeathDid not vote
William LehmanDid not vote
Norman Frederick LentDid not vote
Robert McCloryDid not vote
Paul Norton McCloskey Jr.Did not vote
Austin John MurphyDid not vote
Morgan Francis MurphyDid not vote
John P. MurthaDid not vote
William Flynt NicholsDid not vote
Claude Denson PepperDid not vote
Carl Dewey PerkinsDid not vote
Charles Melvin PriceDid not vote
Nick J. Rahall IIDid not vote
Frederick William RichmondDid not vote
Benjamin Stanley RosenthalDid not vote
Harold Lowell RunnelsDid not vote
James David SantiniDid not vote
Keith George SebeliusDid not vote
Michael Lynn SynarDid not vote
Gene TaylorDid not vote
David Conner TreenDid not vote
Lionel Van DeerlinDid not vote
Wes WatkinsDid not vote
Jamie Lloyd WhittenDid not vote
Lyle WilliamsDid not vote
Charles WilsonDid not vote
Robert Carlton WilsonDid not vote
John Waldemar WydlerDid not vote
Leo C. ZeferettiDid not vote

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