On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 3752 to S.Amdt. 3743 to S. 1664 (Immigration Control and Financial Responsibility Act of 1996)

Protected voluntary pilot programs for workplace verification in 1996
Sen. ZZlastnameZZ voted AGAINST the Abraham Amendment to S.1664. ZZgender2ZZ vote was one in favor of setting up voluntary pilot programs in high-immigration states that would assist employers in verifying whether people they had just hired had the legal right to work in this country. Such verification is considered by many experts to be an essential tool for withdrawing the job magnet from illegal aliens. The verification system established by S.1664 did not involve an ID card. Rather it provided that when new workers wrote down their Social Security number on an application, employers could phone into a national verification system to help assure that the number was a real number and belonged to the person giving it. In earlier smaller pilot programs, businesses had hailed the verification system for making it easier for them to avoid hiring illegal aliens. But a coalition of conservative pro-business Members and of liberal civi

Action Type: 
Floor Amendment
Chamber: 
Senate
Endorsement: 
Support
Timestamp: 
Wednesday, May 1, 1996 (All day)
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Supported 

  • [230] Senator Daniel Akaka - 1996-05-01
  • [162] President Joseph Biden - 1996-05-01
  • [549] Senator Jeff Bingaman - 1996-05-01
  • [447] Senator Kit Bond - 1996-05-01
  • [49] Senator Barbara Boxer - 1996-05-01
  • [881] Senator Robert Byrd - 1996-05-01
  • [134] Senator Ben Campbell - 1996-05-01
  • [465] Senator Thad Cochran - 1996-05-01
  • [504] Senator Kent Conrad - 1996-05-01
  • [739] Senator Tom Daschle - 1996-05-01
  • [148] Senator Christopher Dodd - 1996-05-01
  • [46] Senator Dianne Feinstein - 1996-05-01
  • [235] Senator Chuck Grassley - 1996-05-01
  • [519] Senator Judd Gregg - 1996-05-01
  • [236] Senator Tom Harkin - 1996-05-01
  • [728] Senator Ernest Hollings - 1996-05-01
  • [229] Senator Daniel Inouye - 1996-05-01
  • [836] Senator James Jeffords - 1996-05-01
  • [358] Senator Edward Kennedy - 1996-05-01
  • [359] Former Senator John Kerry - 1996-05-01
  • [860] Senator Herb Kohl - 1996-05-01
  • [35] Senator Jon Kyl - 1996-05-01
  • [524] Senator Frank Lautenberg - 1996-05-01
  • [400] Senator Carl Levin - 1996-05-01
  • [379] Senator Barbara Mikulski - 1996-05-01
  • [556] Senator Harry Reid - 1996-05-01
  • [882] Senator John Rockefeller - 1996-05-01
  • [378] Senator Paul Sarbanes - 1996-05-01
  • [4] Senator Richard Shelby - 1996-05-01
  • [682] Senator Arlen Specter - 1996-05-01
  • [1] Senator Ted Stevens - 1996-05-01
  • [2] Senator Frank Murkowski - 1996-05-01
  • [557] Senator Richard Bryan - 1996-05-01
  • [838] Senator Slade Gorton - 1996-05-01
  • [508] Representative Bob Kerrey - 1996-05-01
  • [563] Senator Daniel Moynihan - 1996-05-01
  • [821] Senator Charles Robb - 1996-05-01
  • [163] Senator William Roth - 1996-05-01
  • [525] Senator Bill Bradley - 1996-05-01
  • [144] Senator Hank Brown - 1996-05-01
  • [969] Senator John Chafee - 1996-05-01
  • [394] Senator William Cohen - 1996-05-01
  • [564] Senator Alfonse DAmato - 1996-05-01
  • [316] Senator Robert Dole - 1996-05-01
  • [509] Senator Jim Exon - 1996-05-01
  • [482] Senator Lauch Faircloth - 1996-05-01
  • [617] Senator John Glenn - 1996-05-01
  • [5] Representative Howell Heflin - 1996-05-01
  • [345] Representative J. Bennett Johnston - 1996-05-01
  • [207] Senator Sam Nunn - 1996-05-01
  • [721] Senator Claiborne Pell - 1996-05-01
  • [23] Senator David Pryor - 1996-05-01
  • [259] Senator Paul Simon - 1996-05-01
  • [887] Senator Alan Simpson - 1996-05-01

Opposed 

  • [476] Senator Max Baucus - 1996-05-01
  • [812] Senator Robert Bennett - 1996-05-01
  • [343] Senator John Breaux - 1996-05-01
  • [477] Senator Conrad Burns - 1996-05-01
  • [248] Senator Larry Craig - 1996-05-01
  • [616] Governor Mike DeWine - 1996-05-01
  • [548] Senator Pete Domenici - 1996-05-01
  • [506] Senator Byron Dorgan - 1996-05-01
  • [862] Senator Russell Feingold - 1996-05-01
  • [745] Senator Bill Frist - 1996-05-01
  • [166] Senator Bob Graham - 1996-05-01
  • [811] Senator Orrin Hatch - 1996-05-01
  • [763] Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison - 1996-05-01
  • [655] Senator James Inhofe - 1996-05-01
  • [835] Senator Patrick Leahy - 1996-05-01
  • [149] Senator Joseph Lieberman - 1996-05-01
  • [466] Senator Trent Lott - 1996-05-01
  • [295] Senator Richard Lugar - 1996-05-01
  • [33] Senator John McCain - 1996-05-01
  • [328] Senator Mitch McConnell - 1996-05-01
  • [840] Senator Patty Murray - 1996-05-01
  • [653] Senator Don Nickles - 1996-05-01
  • [683] Senator Rick Santorum - 1996-05-01
  • [392] Senator Olympia Snowe - 1996-05-01
  • [888] Senator Craig Thomas - 1996-05-01
  • [820] Senator John Warner - 1996-05-01
  • [667] Senator Ron Wyden - 1996-05-01
  • [480] Senator Jesse Helms - 1996-05-01
  • [675] Representative Bob Smith - 1996-05-01
  • [727] Senator Strom Thurmond - 1996-05-01
  • [743] Senator Fred Thompson - 1996-05-01
  • [761] Senator Phil Gramm - 1996-05-01
  • [401] Senator Spencer Abraham - 1996-05-01
  • [449] Senator John Ashcroft - 1996-05-01
  • [1052] Senator Paul Coverdell - 1996-05-01
  • [432] Senator Rod Grams - 1996-05-01
  • [167] Senator Connie Mack, III - 1996-05-01
  • [430] Senator Paul Wellstone - 1996-05-01
  • [21] Senator Dale Bumpers - 1996-05-01
  • [9825] Senator Daniel Coats - 1996-05-01
  • [329] Senator Wendell Ford - 1996-05-01
  • [666] Senator Mark Hatfield - 1996-05-01
  • [318] Senator Nancy Kassebaum - 1996-05-01
  • [250] Senator Dirk Kempthorne - 1996-05-01
  • [256] Senator Carol Moseley-Braun - 1996-05-01
  • [740] Senator Larry Pressler - 1996-05-01
Author: 
Sen. Spencer Abraham [R-MI]
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