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Vote Smart provides easy access to congressional and state voting records and maintains a collection of key votes grouped by issue. Vote Smart uses the following criteria to select key votes:
- The vote should be helpful in portraying how a member stands on a particular issue
- The vote should be clear for any person to understand
- The vote has received media attention
- The vote was passed or defeated by a very close margin
- Occasionally, if a specific bill is consistently inquired about on the Voter's Research Hotline, the vote will be added
Vote Smart provides a summary of the version of the bill text associated with each selected key vote. Our summaries are written by Vote Smart's staff and interns, who adhere to our strict policies and procedures in order to guarantee absolute impartiality and accuracy. They do not necessarily reflect the content of the final version of the bill, but rather the version voted on in that stage. While many procedural votes take place before a full chamber vote, our voting stages reflect the final reading of each chamber vote. Each key vote selection is reviewed by the project's community of advisors, who are political scientists and journalists from all fifty states.
For more information about the legislative process, see here.
Executive Actions
| Bill No. | HR 133 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 12/27/2020 |
| Bill No. | HR 6395 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Vetoed - Executive |
| Date | 12/23/2020 |
| Bill No. | HR 8337 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 10/01/2020 |
| Bill No. | S 2163 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 08/14/2020 |
| Bill No. | HR 1957 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 08/04/2020 |
| Bill No. | S 3744 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 06/17/2020 |
| Bill No. | H J Res 76 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Vetoed - Executive |
| Date | 05/29/2020 |
| Bill No. | S J Res 68 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Vetoed - Executive |
| Date | 05/06/2020 |
| Bill No. | HR 266 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 04/24/2020 |
| Bill No. | HR 748 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 03/27/2020 |
| Bill No. | HR 6201 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 03/18/2020 |
| Bill No. | HR 6074 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 03/06/2020 |
| Bill No. | S 3201 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 02/06/2020 |
| Bill No. | HR 5430 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 01/29/2020 |
| Bill No. | S 151 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 12/30/2019 |
| Bill No. | S 1790 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 12/20/2019 |
| Bill No. | HR 1865 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 12/20/2019 |
| Bill No. | HR 1158 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 12/20/2019 |
| Bill No. | S 1838 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 11/27/2019 |
| Bill No. | HR 3055 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 11/21/2019 |
| Bill No. | SJ Res 54 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Vetoed - Executive |
| Date | 10/15/2019 |
| Bill No. | HR 4378 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 09/27/2019 |
| Bill No. | HR 3877 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 08/02/2019 |
| Bill No. | HR 1327 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 07/28/2019 |
| Bill No. | S J Res 37 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Vetoed - Executive |
| Date | 07/24/2019 |
| Bill No. | S J Res 38 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Vetoed - Executive |
| Date | 07/24/2019 |
| Bill No. | S J Res 36 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Vetoed - Executive |
| Date | 07/24/2019 |
| Bill No. | HR 3401 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 07/01/2019 |
| Bill No. | HR 2157 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 06/06/2019 |
| Bill No. | S J Res 7 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Vetoed - Executive |
| Date | 04/16/2019 |
| Bill No. | H J Res 46 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Vetoed - Executive |
| Date | 03/15/2019 |
| Bill No. | S 47 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 03/12/2019 |
| Bill No. | H J Res 31 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 02/15/2019 |
| Bill No. | H J Res 28 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 01/25/2019 |
| Bill No. | S 24 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 01/16/2019 |
| Bill No. | S 756 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 12/21/2018 |
| Bill No. | HR 6157 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 09/28/2018 |
| Bill No. | HR 5515 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 08/13/2018 |
| Bill No. | S 2155 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 05/24/2018 |
| Bill No. | HR 1865 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 04/11/2018 |
| Bill No. | HR 1625 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 03/23/2018 |
| Bill No. | HR 1892 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 02/09/2018 |
| Bill No. | HR 195 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 01/22/2018 |
| Bill No. | HR 1 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 12/22/2017 |
| Bill No. | H J Res 123 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 12/08/2017 |
| Bill No. | HR 601 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 09/08/2017 |
| Bill No. | HR 3364 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 08/02/2017 |
| Bill No. | HR 244 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 05/05/2017 |
| Bill No. | H J Res 43 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 04/13/2017 |
| Bill No. | H J Res 38 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Signed - Executive |
| Date | 02/16/2017 |
National Key Votes
| Bill No. | PN 2252 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 09/29/2020 |
| Bill No. | PN 1615 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 03/02/2020 |
| Bill No. | PN 1268 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 11/07/2019 |
| Bill No. | PN 1099 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 09/11/2019 |
| Bill No. | PN 934 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 07/15/2019 |
| Bill No. | PN 526 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 03/26/2019 |
| Bill No. | PN 503 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 03/11/2019 |
| Bill No. | PN 410 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 02/25/2019 |
| Bill No. | PN 233 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 01/23/2019 |
| Bill No. | PN 110 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 01/16/2019 |
| Bill No. | PN 22 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 01/09/2019 |
| Bill No. | PN 17 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 01/03/2019 |
| Bill No. | PN 2259 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 07/10/2018 |
| Bill No. | PN 2170 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 06/20/2018 |
| Bill No. | PN 2117 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 06/11/2018 |
| Bill No. | PN 1857 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 04/17/2018 |
| Bill No. | PN 1803 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 04/10/2018 |
| Bill No. | PN 1761 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 03/20/2018 |
| Bill No. | PN 1645 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 02/15/2018 |
| Bill No. | PN 1341 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 01/08/2018 |
| Bill No. | PN 1359 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 01/08/2018 |
| Bill No. | PN 1391 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 01/08/2018 |
| Bill No. | PN 1402 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 01/08/2018 |
| Bill No. | PN 1426 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 01/08/2018 |
| Bill No. | PN 88 |
|---|---|
| Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
| Date | 03/07/2017 |