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Michael Patrick Forbes' Voting Records on Issue: National Security

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National Security

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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 2684
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (406 - 18)
Date 10/14/1999
Bill No. H Con Res 180
Outcome Passage - Resolution Passed - House (311 - 41)
Date 09/09/1999
Bill No. HR 2684
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (235 - 187)
Date 09/09/1999
Bill No. HR 1141
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (269 - 158)
Date 05/18/1999
Bill No. HR 1141
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (220 - 211)
Date 03/24/1999
Bill No. HR 3694
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (337 - 83)
Date 10/07/1998
Bill No. HR 4569
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (255 - 161)
Date 09/17/1998
Bill No. HR 3579
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (242 - 163)
Date 04/30/1998
Bill No. HR 3579
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (212 - 208)
Date 03/31/1998
Bill No. HR 2647
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (408 - 10)
Date 11/07/1997
Bill No. S 858
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (385 - 36)
Date 11/07/1997
Bill No. HR 2266
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (356 - 65)
Date 09/25/1997
Bill No. HR 2266
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (322 - 105)
Date 07/29/1997
Bill No. H Amdt 192
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - House (269 - 119)
Date 06/23/1997
Bill No. HR 3953
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (389 - 22)
Date 08/02/1996
Bill No. H Amdt 1167
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (190 - 208)
Date 06/13/1996
Bill No. H Amdt 1075
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (176 - 248)
Date 05/22/1996
Bill No. HR 1561
Outcome Override of Veto - Veto Override Failed - House (234 - 188)
Date 04/30/1996
Bill No. S 735
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (293 - 133)
Date 04/18/1996
Bill No. HR 2703
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (229 - 191)
Date 03/14/1996
Bill No. HR 1561
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (226 - 172)
Date 03/12/1996
Bill No. HR 1561
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (222 - 192)
Date 06/08/1995
Bill No. HR 7
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (241 - 181)
Date 02/16/1995
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