House Roll Call 720, 98th Congress · June 19, 1984

TO AMEND H.R. 1510 TO PROVIDE FOR TEMPORARY RESIDENCE OF AT LEAST ONE YEAR FOR ALIENS BEFORE OBTAINING PERMANENT RESIDENT STATUS, AND TO REQUIRE THAT ALIENS DEMONSTRATE THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO UNDERSTAND ENGLISH AND U.S. HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT AS A PREREQUISITE TO LEGALIZATION. (MOTION PASSED)

247 yea · 170 nay15 not voting or present

Democrat123 yea · 129 nay

Republican123 yea · 40 nay

Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 1510 ↗

Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1983

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(0.85): Adds prerequisites and delays to the legalization process.
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 (248)

Nay (170)

Not voting or present (15)

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