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Michael Ferguson's Voting Records on Issue: Criminal Justice

Current Issue:

Criminal Justice

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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.

For more information about the legislative process, see here.

National Key Votes
Bill No. HR 6028
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (311 - 106)
Date 06/10/2008
Bill No. HR 3093
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (281 - 142)
Date 07/26/2007
Bill No. HR 980
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (314 - 97)
Date 07/17/2007
Bill No. S 214
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (306 - 114)
Date 05/22/2007
Bill No. HR 1592
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (237 - 180)
Date 05/03/2007
Bill No. HR 6095
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (277 - 140)
Date 09/21/2006
Bill No. HR 5672
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (393 - 23)
Date 06/29/2006
Bill No. HR 2862
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (397 - 19)
Date 11/09/2005
Bill No. HR 2745
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (221 - 184)
Date 06/17/2005
Bill No. HR 2862
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (418 - 7)
Date 06/16/2005
Bill No. HR 1997
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (254 - 163)
Date 02/26/2004
Bill No. HR 1829
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (350 - 65)
Date 11/06/2003
Bill No. S 151
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (400 - 25)
Date 04/10/2003
Bill No. H Amdt 27
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (196 - 229)
Date 04/26/2001
Bill No. HR 503
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (252 - 172)
Date 04/26/2001
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