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:
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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Bill No. | S Amdt 4803 |
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Outcome | Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (75 - 22) |
Date | 05/22/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 4817 |
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Outcome | Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (34 - 63) |
Date | 05/22/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 4818 |
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Outcome | Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (70 - 26) |
Date | 05/22/2008 |
Bill No. | HR 2419 |
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Outcome | Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (81 - 15) |
Date | 05/15/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 4719 |
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Outcome | Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (19 - 74) |
Date | 05/07/2008 |
Bill No. | HR 2831 |
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Outcome | Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (56 - 42) |
Date | 04/23/2008 |
Bill No. | HR 3221 |
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Outcome | Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (84 - 12) |
Date | 04/10/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 4419 to S Amdt 4387 |
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Outcome | Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (88 - 8) |
Date | 04/10/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 4419 to S Amdt 4387 |
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Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
Date | 04/04/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 4233 |
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Outcome | Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (46 - 52) |
Date | 03/14/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 4299 |
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Outcome | Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (73 - 23) |
Date | 03/14/2008 |
Bill No. | S Con Res 70 |
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Outcome | Passage - Joint Resolution Passed - Senate (51 - 44) |
Date | 03/14/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 4207 |
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Outcome | Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (47 - 51) |
Date | 03/13/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 4231 |
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Outcome | Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (61 - 37) |
Date | 03/13/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 4259 |
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Outcome | Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (53 - 45) |
Date | 03/13/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 4309 |
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Outcome | Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (58 - 40) |
Date | 03/13/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 4329 |
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Outcome | Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (56 - 43) |
Date | 03/13/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 4347 |
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Outcome | Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (29 - 71) |
Date | 03/13/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 4231 |
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Outcome | Introduced - Senate |
Date | 03/12/2008 |
Bill No. | HR 4040 |
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Outcome | Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (79 - 13) |
Date | 03/06/2008 |
Bill No. | S 1200 |
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Outcome | Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (83 - 10) |
Date | 02/26/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 3896 |
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Outcome | Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (52 - 42) |
Date | 02/26/2008 |
Bill No. | S Amdt 4070 |
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Outcome | Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (78 - 11) |
Date | 02/25/2008 |
Bill No. | HR 2082 |
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Outcome | Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (51 - 45) |
Date | 02/13/2008 |
Bill No. | S 2248 |
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Outcome | Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (68 - 29) |
Date | 02/12/2008 |