Senate Roll Call 64, 98th Congress · April 28, 1983
TO AMEND S.529, A BILL TO REVISE AND REFORM THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT, BY TERMINATING PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE UNLAWFUL EMPLOYMENT OF ALIENS IF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL REPORTS THAT A PATTERN OF DISCRIMINATION HAS RESULTED FROM CARRYING OUT SUCH PROVISIONS. (MOTION FAILED)
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 “Expansive”
model(0.85): Terminating unlawful employment provisions reduces restrictions on immigrant labor.
Tagged by: policy-area:Immigration
Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive
- Civil RightsA yea counts toward “Broaden protections”
model(0.90): Terminating provisions that cause discrimination broadens civil rights protections.
Tagged by: keyword:discrimination
Axis: Broaden protections ← → Narrow protections
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (40)
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- Pete V. Domenici
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Roger William Jepsen
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- Arlen Specter
- Steven Douglas Symms
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Nay (51)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- John Porter East
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (9)
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.Did not vote
- Quentin Northrup BurdickDid not vote
- Christopher J. DoddDid not vote
- Gary Warren HartDid not vote
- Mark Odom HatfieldDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.Did not vote
- James Albertus McClureDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
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