Senate Roll Call 817, 97th Congress · August 13, 1982
TO AMEND S. 2222 TO DENY SECOND PREFERENCE STATUS TO SPOUSES AND CHILDREN OF ALIENS REQUIRING PERMANENT RESIDENCE UNDER THE LEGALIZATION PROVISIONS UNTIL CERTAIN OTHER ALIENS HAVE ENTERED THE UNITED STATES. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 39
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1982
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): Denying preference status to spouses and children restricts immigrant family entry.
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 (38)
- James Abdnor
- William Lester Armstrong
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Christopher J. Dodd
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Paula Hawkins
- Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa
- Henry John Heinz III
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- James Albertus McClure
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- James Danforth Quayle
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (53)
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Nicholas Frederick Brady
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Harry Flood Byrd Jr.
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- Jennings Randolph
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- John Cornelius Stennis
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
Not voting or present (9)
- Howard Walter CannonDid not vote
- Orrin G. HatchDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.Did not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
- Frank H. MurkowskiDid not vote
- Harrison Hagan SchmittDid not vote
- Malcolm WallopDid not vote
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.Did not vote
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