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John Kerry'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.

For more information about the legislative process, see here.

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National Key Votes
Bill No. S Amdt 1836
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (55 - 44)
Date 03/20/2012
Bill No. S Amdt 1836
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 03/15/2012
Bill No. S Amdt 1537
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (56 - 42)
Date 03/08/2012
Bill No. S Amdt 1520
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (51 - 48)
Date 03/01/2012
Bill No. HR 3630
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (60 - 36)
Date 02/17/2012
Bill No. HR 658
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (75 - 20)
Date 02/06/2012
Bill No. S 2038
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (96 - 3)
Date 02/02/2012
Bill No. S Amdt 1472
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (40 - 59)
Date 02/02/2012
Bill No. S Amdt 1491
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (58 - 41)
Date 02/02/2012
Bill No. H J Res 98
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (44 - 54)
Date 01/26/2012
Bill No. HR 2055
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (67 - 32)
Date 12/17/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 1465
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (89 - 10)
Date 12/17/2011
Bill No. HR 1540
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (86 - 13)
Date 12/15/2011
Bill No. S J Res 10
Outcome Passage - Amendment Rejected - Senate (47 - 53)
Date 12/14/2011
Bill No. S J Res 24
Outcome Passage - Amendment Rejected - Senate (21 - 79)
Date 12/14/2011
Bill No. PN 5
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (54 - 45)
Date 12/06/2011
Bill No. S 1917
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (51 - 49)
Date 12/01/2011
Bill No. S 1931
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (20 - 78)
Date 12/01/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 1125
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (45 - 55)
Date 12/01/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 1126
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (45 - 55)
Date 12/01/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 1274
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (41 - 59)
Date 12/01/2011
Bill No. S 1925
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 11/30/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 1064
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (30 - 67)
Date 11/29/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 1107
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (38 - 60)
Date 11/29/2011
Bill No. HR 2112
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (70 - 30)
Date 11/17/2011
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