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Senate Roll Call 825, 97th Congress · August 17, 1982

TO AMEND S. 2222 TO PREVENT THE TRANSFER OF UNUSED VISAS FROM ONE CONTIGUOUS FOREIGN STATE TO THE OTHER CONTIGUOUS FOREIGN STATE. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 39

38 yea · 61 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat18 yea · 27 nay
Republican19 yea · 34 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2222 ↗

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(0.90): Preventing the transfer of unused visas reduces total visa availability.

    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)

Nay (61)

Not voting or present (1)

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