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James Walsh's Voting Records on Issue: Government Operations

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Government Operations

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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 3056
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (232 - 173)
Date 10/10/2007
Bill No. HR 985
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (331 - 94)
Date 03/14/2007
Bill No. HR 2751
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (382 - 43)
Date 02/25/2004
Bill No. HR 5120
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (308 - 121)
Date 07/24/2002
Bill No. HR 4871
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (216 - 202)
Date 07/20/2000
Bill No. HR 1154
Outcome Passage - Bill Failed - House (190 - 208)
Date 10/05/1998
Bill No. H Amdt 688
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (156 - 201)
Date 06/17/1998
Bill No. HR 3539
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (218 - 198)
Date 09/27/1996
Bill No. HR 123
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (259 - 169)
Date 08/01/1996
Bill No. HR 3734
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (328 - 101)
Date 07/31/1996
Bill No. HR 3734
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (256 - 170)
Date 07/18/1996
Bill No. H Amdt 947
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - House (211 - 209)
Date 03/07/1996
Bill No. H Amdt 903
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (190 - 238)
Date 11/28/1995
Bill No. HR 1022
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (286 - 141)
Date 02/28/1995
Bill No. H Amdt 645
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - House (234 - 192)
Date 06/16/1994
Bill No. H Amdt 416
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (213 - 219)
Date 11/22/1993
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