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Senate Roll Call 178, 99th Congress · September 13, 1985

TO TABLE THE HAWKINS, FL) AMENDMENT TO S 1200, TO REQUIRE STATES TO VERIFY THAT RECIPIENTS OF FEDERAL WELFARE ARE LEGAL RESIDENTS.

31 yea · 59 nay10 not voting or present
Democrat21 yea · 24 nay
Republican10 yea · 35 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1200

Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

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): Tabling a restrictive legal status verification requirement for welfare beneficiaries prevents new restrictions.

    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 (31)

Nay (59)

Not voting or present (10)

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