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Senate Roll Call 89, 98th Congress · May 17, 1983

TO AMEND S. 529, A BILL REVISING AND REFORMING THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT. THE BUMPERS AMENDMENT DELETES THE INVESTOR PREFERENCE, A PROVISION MAKING VISA ALLOTMENTS FOR IMMIGRANTS WHO WOULD INVEST $250,000 OR MORE AND EMPLOY AT LEAST FOUR PERSONS OUTSIDE THE IMMIGRANT'S FAMILY. (MOTION PASSED)

51 yea · 46 nay3 not voting or present
Democrat42 yea · 2 nay
Republican9 yea · 44 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 529 ↗

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(0.90): Deleting investor visa preferences restricts immigration opportunities.

    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 (51)

Nay (46)

Not voting or present (3)

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