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Arlen Specter's Voting Records

Deceased

See Arlen Specter'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.

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Selected Sponsorships
Bill No. S 3772
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 09/13/2010
Bill No. S Amdt 2791
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 11/30/2009
Bill No. S 160
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 01/06/2009
Bill No. S 3186
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 06/24/2008
Bill No. S Amdt 4419 to S Amdt 4387
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 04/04/2008
Bill No. S Amdt 3910
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 02/06/2008
Bill No. S Amdt 3117
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 10/02/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 2997
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 09/21/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 2022
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 09/17/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 2797
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 09/10/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 2480
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 07/26/2007
Bill No. S 1639
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 06/18/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 1519
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 06/14/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 1150
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 05/21/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 1010
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 05/02/2007
Bill No. S 294
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 01/16/2007
Bill No. S 214
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 01/09/2007
Bill No. S 5
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 01/04/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 5087
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 09/27/2006
Bill No. S 2754
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 05/05/2006
Bill No. S 2611
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 04/07/2006
Bill No. S J Res 12
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 04/14/2005
Bill No. S 397
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 02/16/2005
Bill No. S Res 356
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 05/10/2004
Bill No. S Amdt 871
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 06/10/2003
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