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Christopher Shays' Voting Records on Issue: Elections

Current Issue:

Elections

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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 5803
Outcome Passage - Bill Failed - House (248 - 170)
Date 07/15/2008
Bill No. HR 5036
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (239 - 178)
Date 04/15/2008
Bill No. S 1
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - House (411 - 8)
Date 07/31/2007
Bill No. HR 1905
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (241 - 177)
Date 04/19/2007
Bill No. HR 4844
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (228 - 196)
Date 09/20/2006
Bill No. HR 9
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (390 - 33)
Date 07/13/2006
Bill No. HR 4975
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (217 - 213)
Date 05/03/2006
Bill No. HR 1606
Outcome Passage - Bill Failed - House (225 - 182)
Date 11/02/2005
Bill No. HR 2844
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (306 - 97)
Date 04/22/2004
Bill No. HR 3295
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (357 - 48)
Date 10/10/2002
Bill No. H Amdt 747
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (165 - 260)
Date 07/30/1998
Bill No. H Amdt 744
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (150 - 248)
Date 07/20/1998
Bill No. H Amdt 723
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - House (214 - 210)
Date 07/16/1998
Bill No. H Amdt 694
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (201 - 219)
Date 07/14/1998
Bill No. HR 856
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (209 - 208)
Date 03/04/1998
Bill No. HR 2
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (259 - 164)
Date 05/05/1993
Bill No. HR 20
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (333 - 86)
Date 03/03/1993
Bill No. HR 2
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (259 - 160)
Date 02/04/1993
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