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Senate Roll Call 186, 99th Congress · September 17, 1985

TO AMEND S 1200, TO ESTABLISH A SEASONAL AGRICULTURAL AGRICULTURAL IMMIGRANT WORKER PROGRAM. A MAXIMUM OF 350,000 IMMIGRANT WORKERS WOULD BE ALLOWED IN THE U.S. FOR UP TO NINE MONTHS A YEAR.

51 yea · 44 nay2 not voting or present
Democrat16 yea · 30 nay
Republican37 yea · 15 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(0.95): Establishing a seasonal agricultural worker program expands guest worker immigration admissions.

    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 (53)

Nay (45)

Not voting or present (2)

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