Senate Roll Call 363, 99th Congress · December 10, 1985
TO OFFER A JUDGEMENT OF THE SENATE AS TO THE GERMANENESS OF THE HUMPHREY, NH) AMENDMENT TO HJ RES 465, TO ESTABLISH A PANEL TO DETERMINE THAT THE CONSTITUTIONAL AND MORAL RIGHTS OF PERSONS WHO SEEK POLITICAL ASYLUM IN THE UNITED STATES ARE NOT DISREGARDED. THE PANEL WOULD STUDY SPECIFICALLY REQUESTS FOR ASYLUM MADE BY PERSONS FROM COMMUNIST COUNTRIES.
46 yea · 47 nay7 not voting or present
Democrat25 yea · 19 nay
Republican21 yea · 28 nay
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
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 (0.95) Vote is a procedural determination of germaneness.
Tagged by: keyword:asylum
Axis: Expansive ← → Restrictive
Who voted which way
Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.
Yea (46)
- James Abdnor
- Mark Andrews
- William Lester Armstrong
- David Lyle Boren
- William Warren Bradley
- Dale Bumpers
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr.
- Alan John Dixon
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Thomas Francis Eagleton
- J. James Exon
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- Albert Arnold Gore Jr.
- Chuck Grassley
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Jacob Chic Hecht
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Gordon John Humphrey
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr.
- John F. Kerry
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Carl Levin
- James Albertus McClure
- George John Mitchell
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Don Nickles
- Robert William Packwood
- William Proxmire
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Warren Bruce Rudman
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Arlen Specter
- John Cornelius Stennis
- Ted F. Stevens
- Steven Douglas Symms
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Pete Wilson
- Edward Zorinsky
Nay (47)
- Max Baucus
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr.
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Rudolph Eli Boschwitz
- Quentin Northrup Burdick
- Robert C. Byrd
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Alan Cranston
- John Claggett Danforth
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- Edwin Jacob Garn
- T. Slade Gorton
- Phil Gramm
- Tom Harkin
- Gary Warren Hart
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Paula Hawkins
- Henry John Heinz III
- Ernest F. Hollings
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Paul Dominque Laxalt
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Russell Billiu Long
- Richard G. Lugar
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr.
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga
- Mack Francis Mattingly
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- James Danforth Quayle
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- Alan Kooi Simpson
- Robert Theodore Stafford
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Paul Seward Trible Jr.
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr.
Not voting or present (7)
- Lawton Mainor Chiles Jr.Did not vote
- John Porter EastDid not vote
- Daniel Jackson EvansDid not vote
- Barry Morris GoldwaterDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- Edward M. KennedyDid not vote
- John MelcherDid not vote
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