Voted in favor of amendment to kill proposed guestworker program in 2007
Sen. ZZlastnameZZ voted in favor of the Dorgan Amendment to S. 1348 to delete provisions in the bill establishing new “guestworker” programs, which, potentially, could authorize the importation of up to 600,000 foreign workers per year. The Dorgan Amendment failed by a vote of 31 to 64.
Voted on Senate floor in favor of amendment to deter employers from hiring of illegal aliens in 2007
Voted in favor of amendment to fund border fence in 2006
Voted in favor of amendment to fund additional immigration investigators in 2006
Voted in favor of amendment to extend border fence in 2006
Voted on Senate floor against amendment to kill border fence in 2006
Voted in favor of amendment to cap employment-based visas in 2006
Voted in favor of amendment to limit proposed guestworker program in 2006
Voted against amendment to create additional guestworker visa categories in 2006
Voted against amendment to make two million illegal aliens eligible for amnesty in 2006
Voted to authorize National Guard to assist in border patrol efforts in 2006
Voted against killing amendment to prevent guestworkers from getting greencards in 2006
Voted on Senate floor against killing amendment to prevent Social Security for illegal aliens in 2006
Voted on Senate floor against amendment to weaken worker protections in 2006
Voted on Senate floor in favor amendment to increase worker protections in 2006
Voted on Senate floor in favor amendment to remove amnesty provisions from immigration bill in 2006
Voted on Senate floor in favor amendment to create border fence in 2006
Voted on Senate floor against killing amendment to cap guestworker visas in 2006
Voted on Senate floor against killing amendment to strike guestworker provisions from immigration bill 2006
Voted on Senate floor in favor of amendment to postpone guestworker-amnesty program until borders secured in 2006
Voted in favor of amendment to provide funding for additional Border Patrol agents in 2005
Voted in favor of amendment to increase detention beds for illegal aliens in 2005
Voted in favor of amendment to provide funding for additional Border Patrol and ICE agents in 2005
Voted against amendment to increase foreign-worker importation in 2005
Voted against amnesty for agricultural workers in 2005
Voted against an amnesty to nearly one million illegal aliens from Nicaragua and Cuba in 1997
Attempted to protect U.S. high-tech workers in 1998
Before the Senate passed the H-1B doubling bill (S.1723), Sen. ZZlastnameZZ voted for a Kennedy amendment that would have protected American
workers from the worst abuses that the federal Inspector General found in the H-1B program. ZZgender1CZZ voted to required U.S. firms to check a box on a form attesting that they had first sought an American worker for the job. That failed 39-59.
Attempted to protect U.S. high-tech workers in 1998
Before the Senate passed the H-1B doubling bill (S.1723), Sen. ZZlastnameZZ voted for the Kennedy amendment (A-2418) that would have protected American workers from the worst abuses that the federal Inspector General found in the H-1B program. ZZgender1CZZ voted for the Kennedy amendment
Tried to end chain migration in 1996
Protected voluntary pilot programs for workplace verification in 1996
