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James Merrill Jeffords' Voting Records

Deceased

See James Merrill Jeffords' 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 Amdt 4563
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 07/11/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 3103
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 03/16/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 2358
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 11/02/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2365
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 11/02/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2292
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 10/26/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2194
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 10/25/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 1937
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 10/05/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2033
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 10/05/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 1660
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 09/12/2005
Bill No. S J Res 20
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 06/29/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 791
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 06/16/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 168
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 03/15/2005
Bill No. S Res 356
Outcome Introduced - House
Date 05/10/2004
Bill No. S J Res 17
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 07/15/2003
Bill No. S 1072
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 05/15/2003
Bill No. S 625
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 03/27/2001
Bill No. S 565
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 03/19/2001
Bill No. S 27
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 01/22/2001
Bill No. S Amdt 3655
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 06/28/2000
Bill No. S Amdt 3252
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 06/20/2000
Bill No. S Amdt 3473
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 06/19/2000
Bill No. S Amdt 2955
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 04/05/2000
Bill No. S Amdt 2763
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 11/08/1999
Bill No. S Amdt 1241
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 07/14/1999
Bill No. S Amdt 397
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 05/26/1999
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