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Senate Roll Call 191, 99th Congress · September 19, 1985

TO PASS S 1200, A BILL TO REFORM THE EXISTING IMMIGRATION LAWS, BY IMPOSING PENALTIES ON EMPLOYERS OF ILLEGAL WORKERS, GRANTING LEGAL STATUS TO MILLIONS OF RESIDENT ILLEGAL ALIENS AND, ALTERING PRESENT TEMPORARY FOREIGN WORKER REGULATIONS.

69 yea · 30 nay1 not voting or present
Democrat29 yea · 19 nay
Republican40 yea · 11 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.

  • ImmigrationDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.75) The bill combines restrictive employer sanctions with expansive amnesty, moving the issue both ways.

    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 (69)

Nay (30)

Not voting or present (1)

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