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Rick Santorum's Voting Records

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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.

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National Key Votes
Bill No. S J Res 12
Outcome Passage - Resolution Failed - Senate (66 - 34)
Date 06/27/2006
Bill No. S 2766
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (96 - 0)
Date 06/22/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4442
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (13 - 86)
Date 06/22/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4322
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (52 - 46)
Date 06/21/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4376
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (45 - 53)
Date 06/21/2006
Bill No. HR 4939
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (98 - 1)
Date 06/15/2006
Bill No. S J Res 1
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (49 - 48)
Date 06/07/2006
Bill No. PN 1552
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (78 - 15)
Date 05/26/2006
Bill No. S 2611
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (62 - 36)
Date 05/25/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4097
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (49 - 49)
Date 05/25/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4095
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (48 - 49)
Date 05/24/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4087
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (37 - 61)
Date 05/23/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4177
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (59 - 39)
Date 05/23/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4064
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (62 - 35)
Date 05/18/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4072
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (43 - 52)
Date 05/18/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4073
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (58 - 39)
Date 05/18/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 3965
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (50 - 48)
Date 05/17/2006
Bill No. HR 4297
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (54 - 44)
Date 05/11/2006
Bill No. S 2754
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 05/05/2006
Bill No. HR 4939
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (77 - 21)
Date 05/04/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 3688
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (53 - 46)
Date 05/03/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 3617
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (40 - 59)
Date 05/02/2006
Bill No. H J Res 47
Outcome Passage - Joint Resolution Passed - Senate (52 - 48)
Date 03/16/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 3071
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (49 - 51)
Date 03/16/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 3074
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (51 - 49)
Date 03/16/2006
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