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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. PN 78-7
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (70 - 30)
Date 03/10/2021
Bill No. PN 55
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Senate (54 - 45)
Date 04/07/2017
Bill No. PN 55
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (55 - 45)
Date 04/06/2017
Bill No. PN 30
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (52 - 47)
Date 02/08/2017
Bill No. PN 30
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (52 - 47)
Date 02/07/2017
Bill No. S 2040
Outcome Override of Veto - Veto Override Passed - Senate (97 - 1)
Date 09/28/2016
Bill No. S Amdt 2564
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (32 - 65)
Date 10/22/2015
Bill No. PN 4
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (56 - 43)
Date 04/23/2015
Bill No. S 1925
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (68 - 31)
Date 04/26/2012
Bill No. S Amdt 1125
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (45 - 55)
Date 12/01/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 1126
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (45 - 55)
Date 12/01/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 1274
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (41 - 59)
Date 12/01/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 753
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (47 - 52)
Date 10/21/2011
Bill No. HR 1249
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (89 - 9)
Date 09/08/2011
Bill No. S 3772
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (58 - 41)
Date 11/17/2010
Bill No. S Amdt 2588
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (68 - 30)
Date 10/06/2009
Bill No. PN 958
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (53 - 40)
Date 11/08/2007
Bill No. S J Res 14
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (53 - 38)
Date 06/11/2007
Bill No. S 214
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (94 - 2)
Date 03/20/2007
Bill No. S 3930
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (65 - 34)
Date 09/28/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 5087
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (48 - 51)
Date 09/28/2006
Bill No. HR 2863
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (93 - 0)
Date 12/21/2005
Bill No. HR 2863
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (56 - 44)
Date 12/21/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2523
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (44 - 54)
Date 11/15/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2524
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (84 - 14)
Date 11/15/2005
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