Senate Roll Call 90, 98th Congress · May 17, 1983
TO AMEND S. 529 TO ELIMINATE PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE LEGALIZATION OF THE STATUS OF CERTAIN ALIENS UNDER THE (CONTINUED) IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT. (MOTION FAILED) SEE NOTE(S) 5
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 “Restrictive”
model(0.95): Eliminating status legalization provisions restricts immigration pathway.
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 (21)
- William Lester Armstrong
- David Lyle Boren
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- John Porter East
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Roger William Jepsen
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- Russell Billiu Long
- James Albertus McClure
- Don Nickles
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Malcolm Wallop
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (76)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- Howard Henry Baker Jr.
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.
- Alan Cranston
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Barry Morris Goldwater
- T. Slade Gorton
- Chuck Grassley
- Gary Warren Hart
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Henry John Heinz III
- Walter Darlington Huddleston
- Daniel K. Inouye
- Henry Martin Jackson
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Edward M. Kennedy
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- John Melcher
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Charles Harting Percy
- Larry Lee Pressler
- William Proxmire
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- Jennings Randolph
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Arlen Specter
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- John Goodwin Tower
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas
- John W. Warner
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
- Pete Wilson
Not voting or present (3)
- Dennis Webster DeConciniDid not vote
- Ernest F. HollingsDid not vote
- Claiborne de Borda PellDid not vote
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