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Sam Blakeslee's Voting Records on Issue: Unemployed and Low-Income

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Unemployed and Low-Income

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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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California Key Votes
Bill No. AB 1464
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (23 - 16)
Date 06/15/2012
Bill No. AB 6
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (27 - 11)
Date 08/31/2011
Bill No. AB 1756
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (44 - 31)
Date 05/13/2010
Bill No. ABX4 19
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - House (42 - 33)
Date 07/24/2009
Bill No. AB 761
Outcome Passage - Bill Failed - House (38 - 27)
Date 06/22/2009
Bill No. AB 1107
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - House (60 - 18)
Date 08/29/2008
Bill No. SB 840
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - House (44 - 32)
Date 08/29/2008
Bill No. AB 2368
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (46 - 33)
Date 05/28/2008
Bill No. AB 1996
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (42 - 35)
Date 05/27/2008
Bill No. AB 8
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (47 - 32)
Date 06/07/2007
Bill No. AB 2205
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (48 - 32)
Date 05/31/2006
Bill No. AB 2378
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (49 - 27)
Date 05/31/2006
Bill No. AB 3029
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (49 - 31)
Date 05/31/2006
Bill No. AB 813
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (66 - 5)
Date 05/15/2006
Bill No. SB 1689
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (54 - 16)
Date 05/05/2006
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