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James Barcia's Voting Records on Issue: Legislative Branch

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Legislative Branch

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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.

For more information about the legislative process, see here.

National Key Votes
Bill No. SB 229
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (29 - 8)
Date 10/31/2007
Bill No. H Res 495
Outcome Passage - Resolution Passed - House (420 - 1)
Date 07/24/2002
Bill No. HR 5121
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (365 - 49)
Date 07/18/2002
Bill No. HR 2647
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (374 - 52)
Date 11/01/2001
Bill No. HR 1905
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (367 - 49)
Date 08/05/1999
Bill No. HR 1905
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (214 - 197)
Date 06/10/1999
Bill No. HR 4112
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (356 - 65)
Date 09/24/1998
Bill No. HR 4112
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (235 - 179)
Date 06/25/1998
Bill No. H J Res 111
Outcome Passage - Joint Resolution Failed - House (238 - 186)
Date 04/22/1998
Bill No. H Res 301
Outcome Passage - Resolution Passed - House (241 - 165)
Date 11/13/1997
Bill No. HR 2209
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (309 - 106)
Date 09/24/1997
Bill No. H Res 168
Outcome Passage - Resolution Passed - House (258 - 154)
Date 09/18/1997
Bill No. HR 2209
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (214 - 203)
Date 07/28/1997
Bill No. H J Res 2
Outcome Passage - Joint Resolution Failed - House (217 - 211)
Date 02/12/1997
Bill No. H Res 31
Outcome Passage - Resolution Passed - House (395 - 28)
Date 01/21/1997
Bill No. H Res 468
Outcome Tabling Vote - Resolution Tabled - House (229 - 170)
Date 06/27/1996
Bill No. HR 2564
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (421 - 0)
Date 11/29/1995
Bill No. H Amdt 903
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (190 - 238)
Date 11/28/1995
Bill No. HR 2492
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (315 - 106)
Date 10/31/1995
Bill No. H J Res 73
Outcome Passage - Joint Resolution Failed - House (227 - 204)
Date 03/29/1995
Bill No. HR 4454
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (210 - 205)
Date 05/26/1994
Bill No. HR 2348
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (224 - 187)
Date 06/10/1993
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