# H.Res. 965 (119th): This resolution provides for the consideration of the bill (H.R

This resolution provides for the consideration of the bill (H.R. 1689) to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for temporary protected status.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: haiti. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: house_procedure. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: humanitarian_relief. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: immigration. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: mercy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: protection. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: temporary_protected_status. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 113: On Motion to Discharge. Vote type: discharge.
Roll 119: On Agreeing to the Resolution. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The underlying bill concerns temporary humanitarian protection from return to a country in crisis, which has a real protective purpose. Immigration admission and status policy, however, involves prudential tradeoffs about enforcement and national capacity, and the procedural resolution does not directly restrain a named evil or directly advance one. Mixed fits better than good or evil, and the metadata is sufficient for this high-level judgment.
Theological note: Scripture commends care for the stranger and sojourner and calls rulers to do justice and protect the vulnerable, which bears on whether people fleeing dangerous conditions should receive temporary protection. Prudence also weighs border administration, rule of law, and the capacity of the nation, so the measure's merits involve ordinary policy judgment. As a procedural rule, the resolution does not itself settle that question.

## Recorded votes

Roll 113: On Motion to Discharge. Yea 219 · Nay 209 · Other 3.
Roll 119: On Agreeing to the Resolution. Yea 220 · Nay 207 · Other 4.

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