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Charles Hagel's Voting Records on Issue: K-12 Education

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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National Key Votes

Bill No. S Amdt 4689
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (48 - 51)
Date 07/25/2006
Bill No. HR 3010
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (94 - 3)
Date 10/27/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2287
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (41 - 56)
Date 10/27/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2275
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (44 - 51)
Date 10/26/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2292
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (46 - 53)
Date 10/26/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 172
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (44 - 56)
Date 03/17/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 177
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (51 - 49)
Date 03/17/2005
Bill No. HR 1350
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (95 - 3)
Date 05/13/2004
Bill No. HR 1
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (87 - 10)
Date 12/18/2001
Bill No. S Amdt 3655
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (51 - 47)
Date 06/28/2000
Bill No. S Amdt 351
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (85 - 13)
Date 05/18/1999
Bill No. HR 800
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (98 - 1)
Date 04/21/1999
Bill No. HR 800
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (98 - 1)
Date 03/11/1999
Bill No. HR 2646
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (59 - 36)
Date 06/24/1998
Bill No. HR 2646
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (56 - 43)
Date 04/23/1998
Bill No. S Amdt 2175
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (54 - 46)
Date 04/01/1998
Bill No. S Amdt 2165
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (46 - 52)
Date 03/31/1998
Bill No. S Amdt 357
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (51 - 49)
Date 05/23/1997
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