Votes, bills and records by issue · 119th Congress
Immigration
Joni Ernst
Republican, Iowa
On Immigration, their 31 votes sit level with the typical Republican.
Where this differs from their party: Close to the typical Republican. Voted with the Republican majority on 96.8% of 31 votes here, against 99.1% on all contested votes.
From votes
31 votes cast
Sits level with the typical Republican.
From bills backed
Too few bills for a position from bills: 13 measures counted, and a position needs 20.
Exact figures
Positions are coordinates on the map's main axis. Only the distance from the typical Democrat and typical Republican means anything.
From votes
- Senator at 0.38
- Democratic caucus median −0.43, from 46 senators
- Republican caucus median 0.38, from 53 senators
Each mark is a senator. The vertical line is the typical senator in that caucus.
A position shows which senators someone votes or legislates alongside, not whether they are for or against a policy. Issues come from each bill's topic, so an issue can include amendments on other topics. Left and right on the strips have no meaning of their own. Bills often have backers from both parties, so a position from bills is read against the medians for bills, not against the position from votes. See how these summaries are written.
- Contested vote:
- a roll call where the losing side got at least 10% of the votes cast.
- Party break:
- a contested vote against the majority of their own party.
- Cosponsor:
- a senator who signs on to support a measure, a bill or resolution, that another senator introduced. Bills backed means sponsored or cosponsored.
- Typical senator:
- the middle senator of a group, with half on each side. "17% of the way" means 17% of the distance from the typical senator in one party to the typical senator in the other.
- Votes with party
- 96.8%
- Votes against party
- 1
- Votes cast
- 31
One bill, S. 2, accounts for 23 of this senator's 31 votes on this issue.
Votes on this issue
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Executive Office for Immigration Review relating to "Appellate Procedures for the Board of Immigration Appeals".
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 33.
Voted Yea·Republican majority: Yea
To provide for limitations on judgments, awards, and compromise settlements under section 1304 of title 31, United States Code.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To prohibit the use of funds to provide payments to certain individuals.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To appropriate amounts for local law enforcement hiring programs.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To provide compensation to law enforcement officers who defended the United States Capitol during the events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, and for other purposes.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To prohibit the Department of Justice from using taxpayer funds to make settlement payments to individuals convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers on January 6, 2021.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To make appropriations for transparency and accountability.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To make funds available for the timely adjudication of DACA renewal applications.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To rescind unobligated balances under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To transfer amounts for youth mentoring programs of the Department of Justice.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 33.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To repurpose funds previously appropriated for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the timely processing of DACA applications and related employment authorization documents and to prohibit the use of funds to arrest, detain, deport, or remove DACA recipients.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To ensure only citizens are registered to vote in elections for Federal office, and to require voters to provide photo identification.
Voted Yea·Republican majority: Yea
To support the work performed by the Immigration Detention Ombudsman.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To redirect funding for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to the Child Care and Development Block Grant program.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To place reasonable limits on contributions to Super PACs which make independent expenditures.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 33.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To make appropriations for the conduct of inspections of the Delaney Hall Detention Facility.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To provide funding for the HOME Investment Partnerships program.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To provide a clarification relating to, and to prohibit the use of funds for, the White House Ballroom.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To reallocate funds that would have been used for the Anti-Weaponization Fund to fraud enforcement.
Voted Yea·Republican majority: Nay·Against the party majority
An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 33.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
An original bill to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of S. Con. Res. 33.
Voted Yea·Republican majority: Yea
A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services relating to "Removal of the Automatic Extension of Employment Authorization Documents".
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.
Voted Yea·Republican majority: Yea
To include crimes resulting in death or serious bodily injury to the list of offenses that, if committed by an inadmissible alien, require mandatory detention.
Voted Yea·Republican majority: Yea
A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.
Voted Yea·Republican majority: Yea
To strike the section that authorizes State attorneys general to sue Federal immigration authorities for alleged violations relating to the detention of aliens.
Voted Nay·Republican majority: Nay
To expand the list of criminal offenses that subject inadmissible aliens to mandatory detention.
Voted Yea·Republican majority: Yea
A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.
Voted Yea·Republican majority: Yea
A vote against the party majority can reflect a home-state interest or a procedural step, such as a leader voting no in order to move to reconsider.
Legislation on this issue
These are records, not a score, and sponsoring a measure does not mean it moved. Simple and concurrent resolutions cannot become law, and a proposal enacted through a companion House bill or inside a larger bill is not counted as becoming law here.
1 measure this senator backed has no other backer on the map, so it is listed but not counted in the position from bills.
Sponsored
Preventing Fugitive Fraudsters Act
Not counted in the position from bills: no other backer on the map.
Latest action, : Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
DOCTORS Act
Latest action, : Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
BE GONE Act
Latest action, : Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Sarah's Law
Latest action, : Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Transnational Criminal Organization Illicit Spotter Prevention and Elimination Act
Latest action, : Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Cosponsored
Mandatory E-Verify Act of 2026
Latest action, : Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
America’s CHILDREN Act of 2025
Latest action, : Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Conrad State 30 and Physician Access Reauthorization Act
Latest action, : Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Immigration Parole Reform Act of 2025
Latest action, : Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Accountability Through Electronic Verification Act
Latest action, : Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Show the other 4 cosponsored measures
A bill to require the Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to identify and conduct recurrent vetting of evacuees from Afghanistan found not to be properly vetted before entering the United States.
Latest action, : Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
End Child Trafficking Now Act
Latest action, : Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
PRINTS Act
Latest action, : Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Laken Riley Act
Latest action, : Became Public Law No: 119-1.
Became Public Law 119-1
Amendments filed on this issue's bills
These are records, not a score. Many amendments are procedural or filed in bulk, and most are never taken up on the floor. Adopted means the Senate agreed to the amendment, which can still be left out of the final text.
An amendment is listed under the policy area of the bill it amends. An amendment can differ from its bill's topic.
Amendments through Sept. 30, 2026.
Amends S. 5
Laken Riley Act
To include crimes resulting in death or serious bodily injury to the list of offenses that, if committed by an inadmissible alien, require mandatory detention.
Latest action, : Amendment SA 8, as amended, agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 75 - 24. Record Vote Number: 6.
Adopted
Amendment Agreed to, Yea 75, Nay 24