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Jim McDermott's Voting Records

See Jim McDermott'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. HR 622
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/30/2015
Bill No. HR 4015
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 02/06/2014
Bill No. HR 3361
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 10/29/2013
Bill No. HR 3370
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 10/29/2013
Bill No. HR 6156
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 07/19/2012
Bill No. HR 3079
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 10/03/2011
Bill No. HR 2832
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 09/02/2011
Bill No. HR 459
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/26/2011
Bill No. HR 6419
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 11/17/2010
Bill No. HR 5618
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 06/28/2010
Bill No. HR 5175
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 04/29/2010
Bill No. HR 3548
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 09/10/2009
Bill No. HR 1913
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 04/02/2009
Bill No. HR 1388
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 03/09/2009
Bill No. HR 1256
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 03/03/2009
Bill No. HR 11
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/06/2009
Bill No. HR 12
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 01/06/2009
Bill No. HR 6867
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 09/10/2008
Bill No. HR 6275
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 06/17/2008
Bill No. HR 6049
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 05/14/2008
Bill No. HR 5749
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 04/09/2008
Bill No. HR 5719
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 04/08/2008
Bill No. HR 5613
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 03/13/2008
Bill No. HR 5351
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 02/12/2008
Bill No. HR 5244
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 02/07/2008
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