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Robert Byrd's Voting Records on Issue: Higher Education

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Current Issue:

Higher Education

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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. HR 4872
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (56 - 43)
Date 03/25/2010
Bill No. S Con Res 13
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (53 - 43)
Date 04/29/2009
Bill No. HR 4137
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (83 - 8)
Date 07/31/2008
Bill No. S Amdt 4803
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (75 - 22)
Date 05/22/2008
Bill No. HR 2764
Outcome Concurrence Vote With Amendment - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (76 - 17)
Date 12/18/2007
Bill No. HR 2669
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (79 - 12)
Date 09/07/2007
Bill No. HR 2669
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (78 - 18)
Date 07/20/2007
Bill No. HR 4297
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (66 - 31)
Date 02/02/2006
Bill No. S 1932
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (52 - 47)
Date 11/03/2005
Bill No. HR 3010
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (94 - 3)
Date 10/27/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2213
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (48 - 51)
Date 10/25/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 177
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (51 - 49)
Date 03/17/2005
Bill No. S 1134
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (61 - 37)
Date 03/02/2000
Bill No. HR 800
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (98 - 1)
Date 04/21/1999
Bill No. HR 800
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (98 - 1)
Date 03/11/1999
Bill No. HR 6
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (96 - 0)
Date 09/29/1998
Bill No. HR 6
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (96 - 1)
Date 07/09/1998
Bill No. HR 2646
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (59 - 36)
Date 06/24/1998
Bill No. HR 2646
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (56 - 43)
Date 04/23/1998
Bill No. S Amdt 527
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (38 - 61)
Date 06/26/1997
Bill No. S Amdt 3670
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (53 - 47)
Date 04/25/1996
Bill No. HR 2518
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (80 - 15)
Date 10/18/1993
Bill No. HR 2518
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (82 - 17)
Date 09/29/1993
Bill No. S Amdt 608
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (55 - 44)
Date 07/22/1993
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