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Rob Portman's Voting Records

See Rob Portman'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 4524
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 07/13/2022
Bill No. S J Res 55
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 07/13/2022
Bill No. S J Res 29
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 11/17/2021
Bill No. S 1251
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 04/20/2021
Bill No. S 1260
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 04/20/2021
Bill No. S 475
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 02/25/2021
Bill No. S 3744
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 05/14/2020
Bill No. S 3275
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 02/11/2020
Bill No. S 2163
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 07/18/2019
Bill No. S 311
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 01/31/2019
Bill No. S 204
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 08/03/2017
Bill No. S 756
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 03/29/2017
Bill No. S 722
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 03/23/2017
Bill No. S 2232
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 11/03/2015
Bill No. S 1
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 01/06/2015
Bill No. S 2280
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 05/01/2014
Bill No. S Amdt 1520
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 02/28/2012
Bill No. S Amdt 1472
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 01/31/2012
Bill No. S Amdt 928
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 11/09/2011
Bill No. S J Res 10
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 03/31/2011
Bill No. HR 748
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 02/10/2005
Bill No. HR 4520
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 06/04/2004
Bill No. HR 3108
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 09/17/2003
Bill No. HR 2028
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 05/08/2003
Bill No. HR 1528
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 04/01/2003
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