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Tom Carper's Voting Records

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See Tom Carper'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. S Res 417
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 10/19/2023
Bill No. S 870
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 03/16/2023
Bill No. S 2093
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 06/16/2021
Bill No. S 1251
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 04/20/2021
Bill No. S 937
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 03/23/2021
Bill No. S 151
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 01/16/2019
Bill No. S J Res 64
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 09/24/2018
Bill No. S J Res 52
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 02/27/2018
Bill No. S 2155
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 11/16/2017
Bill No. S Amdt 4720
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 06/16/2016
Bill No. S Amdt 2716
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 10/20/2015
Bill No. S Amdt 3583
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 07/29/2014
Bill No. S 2578
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 07/09/2014
Bill No. S 1845
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 12/17/2013
Bill No. S J Res 19
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 06/18/2013
Bill No. S 815
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 04/25/2013
Bill No. S Amdt 711
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 04/17/2013
Bill No. S Amdt 714
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 04/17/2013
Bill No. S 743
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 04/16/2013
Bill No. S 47
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 01/22/2013
Bill No. S 3414
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 07/19/2012
Bill No. S 3369
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 07/10/2012
Bill No. S 1925
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 11/30/2011
Bill No. S 1789
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 11/02/2011
Bill No. S 1769
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 10/31/2011
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