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John Ensign's Voting Records

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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 1473
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (81 - 19)
Date 04/14/2011
Bill No. HR 4
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (87 - 12)
Date 04/05/2011
Bill No. S J Res 10
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 03/31/2011
Bill No. H J Res 48
Outcome Passage - Joint Resolution Passed - Senate (87 - 13)
Date 03/17/2011
Bill No. HR 1
Outcome Passage - Bill Failed - Senate (44 - 56)
Date 03/09/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 149
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (42 - 58)
Date 03/09/2011
Bill No. H J Res 44
Outcome Passage - Joint Resolution Passed - Senate (91 - 9)
Date 03/02/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 115
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (58 - 40)
Date 03/02/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 112
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (52 - 47)
Date 03/01/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 112
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 02/28/2011
Bill No. S J Res 6
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 02/16/2011
Bill No. HR 514
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (86 - 12)
Date 02/15/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 14
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (47 - 51)
Date 02/15/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 21
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (51 - 47)
Date 02/15/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 13
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (47 - 51)
Date 02/02/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 28
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (44 - 54)
Date 02/02/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 9
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Agreed - Senate (81 - 17)
Date 02/02/2011
Bill No. Treaty Doc. 111-5
Outcome Passage - Treaty Ratification Passed - Senate (71 - 26)
Date 12/22/2010
Bill No. HR 3082
Outcome Concurrence Vote With Amendment - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (79 - 16)
Date 12/21/2010
Bill No. HR 2965
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (65 - 31)
Date 12/18/2010
Bill No. HR 4853
Outcome Concurrence Vote With Amendment - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (81 - 19)
Date 12/15/2010
Bill No. HR 847
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (57 - 42)
Date 12/09/2010
Bill No. S 3985
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (53 - 45)
Date 12/08/2010
Bill No. S 3991
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (55 - 43)
Date 12/08/2010
Bill No. S Amdt 4727
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (53 - 36)
Date 12/04/2010
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