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Al Franken's Voting Records on Issue: Foreign Affairs

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Foreign Affairs

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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 3364
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (98 - 2)
Date 07/27/2017
Bill No. S 722
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (98 - 2)
Date 06/15/2017
Bill No. PN 52
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (82 - 13)
Date 05/22/2017
Bill No. PN 52
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (86 - 12)
Date 05/18/2017
Bill No. PN 53
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (52 - 46)
Date 03/23/2017
Bill No. PN 53
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (52 - 46)
Date 03/23/2017
Bill No. PN 25
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (56 - 43)
Date 02/01/2017
Bill No. PN 25
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (56 - 43)
Date 01/30/2017
Bill No. S 2040
Outcome Override of Veto - Veto Override Passed - Senate (97 - 1)
Date 09/28/2016
Bill No. S 2328
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Failed - Senate (68 - 30)
Date 06/29/2016
Bill No. S 2040
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 09/16/2015
Bill No. S Amdt 2255
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (43 - 55)
Date 11/19/2013
Bill No. S Amdt 139
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (53 - 46)
Date 03/23/2013
Bill No. Treaty Doc. 112-7
Outcome Passage - Treaty Ratification Failed - Senate (61 - 38)
Date 12/04/2012
Bill No. HR 1540
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (86 - 13)
Date 12/15/2011
Bill No. S 1619
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (63 - 35)
Date 10/11/2011
Bill No. S 1619
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 09/22/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 4302
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Not Tabled - Senate (38 - 61)
Date 06/09/2010
Bill No. S Amdt 4326
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (58 - 41)
Date 06/09/2010
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