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Fred Thompson's Voting Records on Issue: Employment and Affirmative Action

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Employment and Affirmative Action

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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. S J Res 6
Outcome Passage - Joint Resolution Passed - Senate (56 - 44)
Date 03/06/2001
Bill No. HR 833
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (83 - 14)
Date 02/02/2000
Bill No. S Amdt 2547
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (54 - 44)
Date 11/09/1999
Bill No. S Amdt 2751
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (50 - 48)
Date 11/09/1999
Bill No. S Amdt 3258
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (68 - 31)
Date 07/23/1998
Bill No. S Amdt 2417
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (59 - 39)
Date 05/18/1998
Bill No. S Amdt 1708
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (58 - 37)
Date 03/06/1998
Bill No. S 2056
Outcome Passage - Bill Failed - Senate (49 - 50)
Date 09/10/1996
Bill No. HR 3103
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (98 - 0)
Date 08/02/1996
Bill No. HR 3448
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (76 - 22)
Date 08/02/1996
Bill No. HR 743
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (53 - 46)
Date 07/10/1996
Bill No. S Amdt 4438
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (61 - 38)
Date 07/10/1996
Bill No. HR 3448
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (74 - 24)
Date 07/09/1996
Bill No. S Amdt 4435
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (46 - 52)
Date 07/09/1996
Bill No. S Amdt 3752
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (54 - 46)
Date 05/01/1996
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