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Robert Byrd's Voting Records

Deceased

See Robert Byrd'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.

For more information about the legislative process, see here.

Selected Sponsorships
Bill No. S Amdt 4204
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 05/27/2010
Bill No. S 181
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 01/08/2009
Bill No. S Amdt 2909
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 09/19/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 2022
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 09/17/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 2480
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 07/26/2007
Bill No. S J Res 14
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 05/24/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 5104
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 09/28/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4615
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 07/12/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4064
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 05/17/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 3013
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 03/14/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 2476
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 11/09/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2275
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 10/26/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2194
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 10/25/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2033
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 10/05/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 464
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 04/15/2005
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 565
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 03/19/2001
Bill No. S Con Res 21
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 03/23/1999
Bill No. S Amdt 3011
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 06/25/1998
Bill No. S Amdt 1446
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 06/21/1995
Bill No. S Amdt 350
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 03/22/1995
Bill No. S Amdt 790
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 09/09/1993
Bill No. S 55
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 01/21/1993
Bill No. S 3
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 01/14/1991
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