Senate Roll Call 65, 98th Congress · April 28, 1983
TO AMEND S. 529 BY EXTENDING THE PERIOD DURING WHICH AN ALIEN MAY BE ELIGIBLE TO BE ADJUSTED TO THE STATUS OF BEING ADMITTED TO THE U.S. FOR TEMPORARY RESIDENCE. (MOTION FAILE
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(0.90): Extending the adjustment period expands eligibility for temporary legal residence.
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 (20)
- Jeff Bingaman
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Alan Cranston
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Alan John Dixon
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- Pete Wilson
Nay (70)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- David Lyle Boren
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Robert C. Byrd
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Henry John Heinz III
- Jesse Helms
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- George John Mitchell
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Edward Zorinsky
Not voting or present (10)
- 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
- Paul S. SarbanesDid not vote
- Robert Theodore StaffordDid not vote
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