To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to provide that members of Hamas (commonly known as the Islamic Resistance Movement) be considered to be engaged in a terrorist activity and ineligible to receive visas and excluded from admission into the United States.

Vote results

No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).

Cosponsors

37 cosponsors — 15 Republicans, 22 Democrats

15 of 37 cosponsors (41%) are from the other party.

Gary Ackerman (D-NY), Robert Andrews (D-NJ), Jim Bacchus (D-FL), Lucien Blackwell (D-PA), Charles Canady (R-FL), Sam Coppersmith (D-AZ), George Darden (D-GA), Lincoln Diaz-Balart (R-FL), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Cleo Fields (D-LA), Hamilton Fish (R-NY), Martin Frost (D-TX), Rod Grams (R-MN), Gene Green (D-TX), Alcee Hastings (D-FL), Tim Holden (D-PA), Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Tom Lantos (D-CA), David Levy (R-NY), Nita Lowey (D-NY), Ronald Machtley (R-RI), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Carrie Meek (D-FL), Jan Meyers (R-KS), John Mica (R-FL), Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Collin Peterson (D-MN), John Porter (R-IL), Jim Ramstad (R-MN), Arthur Ravenel (R-SC) and 7 more.

More from the sponsor

Other 103rd Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Peter Deutsch.

• H.Con.Res. 175 (103rd) Anti-Boycott Resolution of 1993
• H.Con.Res. 171 (103rd) Concerning the heroic rescue of Danish Jews in World War II by the Danish people.
• H.R. 156 (103rd) Flood Elevation Reimbursement Act of 1993
• H.R. 1848 (103rd) To authorize issuance of a certificate of documentation with appropriate endorsement for employment in the coastwise trade of the United…
• H.R. 2548 (103rd) Federal Disaster Preparedness and Response Act of 1993
• H.R. 4740 (103rd) To require the Administrator of General Services to convey to the city of Key West, Florida, each of 2 parcels of land of the Naval Air…

Sponsor’s state and district

Florida in Congress · FL-20 district