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Sam Brownback's Voting Records on Issue: Legislative Branch

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Legislative Branch

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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:

  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.

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Executive Actions

Legislative Branch
Bill No. SB 99
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 04/11/2014
Bill No. HB 2019
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/27/2013

National Key Votes
Bill No. S Amdt 4697
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (39 - 56)
Date 11/30/2010
Bill No. S Amdt 3302
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (53 - 46)
Date 01/26/2010
Bill No. HR 2918
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (62 - 38)
Date 09/30/2009
Bill No. S 160
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (61 - 37)
Date 02/26/2009
Bill No. S Amdt 4347
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (29 - 71)
Date 03/13/2008
Bill No. S 1257
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (57 - 42)
Date 09/18/2007
Bill No. S 1
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (83 - 14)
Date 08/02/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 2062
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (92 - 6)
Date 10/18/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 1678
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (43 - 52)
Date 09/15/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 1670
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (44 - 53)
Date 09/14/2005
Bill No. HR 2985
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (96 - 4)
Date 07/29/2005
Bill No. HR 4755
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (94 - 2)
Date 09/21/2004
Bill No. S Amdt 1904
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (60 - 34)
Date 10/23/2003
Bill No. HR 2657
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (85 - 7)
Date 07/11/2003
Bill No. HR 5121
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (85 - 14)
Date 07/25/2002
Bill No. HR 1905
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (95 - 4)
Date 06/16/1999
Bill No. HR 4112
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (90 - 9)
Date 07/21/1998
Bill No. S Amdt 2981
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (48 - 45)
Date 06/25/1998
Bill No. H Res 468
Outcome Tabling Vote - Resolution Tabled - House (229 - 170)
Date 06/27/1996
Bill No. HR 2564
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (421 - 0)
Date 11/29/1995
Bill No. H Amdt 903
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (190 - 238)
Date 11/28/1995
Bill No. HR 2492
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (315 - 106)
Date 10/31/1995
Bill No. H J Res 73
Outcome Passage - Joint Resolution Failed - House (227 - 204)
Date 03/29/1995
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