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Senate Roll Call 738, 99th Congress · October 17, 1986

TO ADOPT THE CONFERENCE REPORT ON S 1200, THE IMMIGRATION REFORM AND CONTROL ACT, WHICH WOULD AMEND THE IMMIGRATION AND NATIONALITY ACT, TO EFFECTIVELY CONTROL UNAUTHORIZED IMMIGRATION INTO THE UNITED STATES BY GRANTING AMNESTY TO ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO CAN PROVE THAT THEY ENTERED THE UNITED STATES PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 1982, PENALIZING EMPLOYERS WHO KNOWINGLY HIRE ILLEGAL ALIENS, AND ESTABLISHING A SPECIAL FARM WORKER PROGRAM FOR WESTERN AGRICULTURAL GROWERS.

63 yea · 24 nay6 not voting or present
Democrat37 yea · 9 nay
Republican30 yea · 18 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(0.85): Passing the conference report grants legal amnesty to unauthorized immigrants.

    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 (67)

Nay (27)

Not voting or present (6)

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