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Robert Byrd's Voting Records

Deceased

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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. HR 4851
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (59 - 38)
Date 04/15/2010
Bill No. HR 4872
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (56 - 43)
Date 03/25/2010
Bill No. HR 2847
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (68 - 29)
Date 03/17/2010
Bill No. HR 4213
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (62 - 36)
Date 03/10/2010
Bill No. S Amdt 3353
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (47 - 50)
Date 03/03/2010
Bill No. HR 2847
Outcome Concurrence Vote With Amendment - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (70 - 28)
Date 02/24/2010
Bill No. HR 2847
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (62 - 30)
Date 02/22/2010
Bill No. PN 1351
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (52 - 33)
Date 02/09/2010
Bill No. H J Res 45
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (60 - 39)
Date 01/28/2010
Bill No. PN 959
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (70 - 30)
Date 01/28/2010
Bill No. S Amdt 3302
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (53 - 46)
Date 01/26/2010
Bill No. S Amdt 3301
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (53 - 45)
Date 01/21/2010
Bill No. HR 3590
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (60 - 39)
Date 12/24/2009
Bill No. HR 4314
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (60 - 39)
Date 12/24/2009
Bill No. HR 3590
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (60 - 39)
Date 12/23/2009
Bill No. S Amdt 2786
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (60 - 39)
Date 12/23/2009
Bill No. S Amdt 2786
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (60 - 39)
Date 12/22/2009
Bill No. S Amdt 3276
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (60 - 39)
Date 12/22/2009
Bill No. S Amdt 2793
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (51 - 48)
Date 12/15/2009
Bill No. HR 3288
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (57 - 35)
Date 12/13/2009
Bill No. S Amdt 2962
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (54 - 45)
Date 12/08/2009
Bill No. S Amdt 2791
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (61 - 39)
Date 12/03/2009
Bill No. PN 187
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (59 - 39)
Date 11/19/2009
Bill No. HR 2996
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (72 - 28)
Date 10/29/2009
Bill No. HR 3548
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (87 - 13)
Date 10/27/2009
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