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Butch Otter's Voting Records

See Butch Otter's Key Votes

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:

  1. The vote should be helpful in portraying how a member stands on a particular issue
  2. The vote should be clear for any person to understand
  3. The vote has received media attention
  4. The vote was passed or defeated by a very close margin
  5. 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.

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Selected Sponsorships
Bill No. HR 5092
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 04/05/2006
Bill No. HR 4761
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 02/15/2006
Bill No. HR 4167
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 10/27/2005
Bill No. HR 3824
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 09/19/2005
Bill No. HR 2679
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 05/26/2005
Bill No. HR 2389
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 05/17/2005
Bill No. HR 8
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 02/17/2005
Bill No. HR 748
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 02/10/2005
Bill No. HR 554
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 02/02/2005
Bill No. HR 418
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/26/2005
Bill No. HR 420
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/26/2005
Bill No. H J Res 10
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/25/2005
Bill No. HR 4359
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 05/13/2004
Bill No. HR 4227
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 04/28/2004
Bill No. HR 4181
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 04/21/2004
Bill No. HR 3717
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/21/2004
Bill No. HR 2028
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 05/08/2003
Bill No. HR 1997
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 05/07/2003
Bill No. HR 7
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 05/07/2003
Bill No. HR 1904
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 05/01/2003
Bill No. HR 1036
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 02/27/2003
Bill No. HR 760
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 02/13/2003
Bill No. HR 5
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 02/05/2003
Bill No. HR 339
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/27/2003
Bill No. H J Res 4
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/07/2003
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