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Tom Harkin'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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National Key Votes
Bill No. S 2223
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (54 - 42)
Date 04/30/2014
Bill No. S 2223
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 04/08/2014
Bill No. HR 4302
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (64 - 35)
Date 03/31/2014
Bill No. HR 2642
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (68 - 32)
Date 02/04/2014
Bill No. S 1845
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (55 - 45)
Date 01/14/2014
Bill No. S 1845
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 12/17/2013
Bill No. HR 2775
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (81 - 18)
Date 10/16/2013
Bill No. S 954
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (66 - 27)
Date 06/10/2013
Bill No. S Amdt 2172
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (41 - 58)
Date 06/19/2012
Bill No. S Amdt 2174
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (43 - 56)
Date 06/19/2012
Bill No. S Amdt 2392
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (65 - 33)
Date 06/13/2012
Bill No. HR 3630
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (60 - 36)
Date 02/17/2012
Bill No. S Amdt 1465
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (89 - 10)
Date 12/17/2011
Bill No. S 1931
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (20 - 78)
Date 12/01/2011
Bill No. S 1660
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (50 - 49)
Date 10/11/2011
Bill No. HR 4213
Outcome Concurrence Vote With Amendment - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (59 - 39)
Date 07/21/2010
Bill No. HR 4213
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (60 - 40)
Date 07/20/2010
Bill No. HR 4851
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (59 - 38)
Date 04/15/2010
Bill No. HR 4213
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (62 - 36)
Date 03/10/2010
Bill No. S Amdt 3276
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (60 - 39)
Date 12/22/2009
Bill No. HR 3548
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (87 - 13)
Date 10/27/2009
Bill No. HR 3221
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (72 - 13)
Date 07/26/2008
Bill No. S 3186
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (50 - 35)
Date 07/26/2008
Bill No. HR 2642
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (92 - 6)
Date 06/26/2008
Bill No. HR 6124
Outcome Override of Veto - Veto Override Passed - Senate (80 - 14)
Date 06/18/2008
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