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Bill Richardson's Voting Records on Issue: Federal, State and Local Relations

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Federal, State and Local Relations

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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 1316
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (392 - 30)
Date 08/02/1996
Bill No. H Amdt 1309
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (176 - 223)
Date 07/22/1996
Bill No. H Amdt 1286
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (103 - 311)
Date 07/12/1996
Bill No. HR 3396
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (342 - 67)
Date 07/12/1996
Bill No. H Amdt 1190
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - House (212 - 206)
Date 06/20/1996
Bill No. H Amdt 1133
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (194 - 233)
Date 06/06/1996
Bill No. HR 3562
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (289 - 136)
Date 06/06/1996
Bill No. H Amdt 969
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - House (257 - 163)
Date 03/20/1996
Bill No. H Amdt 946
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (198 - 222)
Date 03/07/1996
Bill No. H Amdt 935
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - House (258 - 164)
Date 02/28/1996
Bill No. HR 4
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (245 - 178)
Date 12/21/1995
Bill No. HR 2546
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (224 - 191)
Date 11/02/1995
Bill No. H Amdt 814
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - House (223 - 203)
Date 09/20/1995
Bill No. HR 961
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (240 - 185)
Date 05/16/1995
Bill No. HR 4
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (234 - 199)
Date 03/24/1995
Bill No. HR 728
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (238 - 192)
Date 02/14/1995
Bill No. H Amdt 755
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - House (281 - 148)
Date 07/14/1994
Bill No. HR 4649
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (213 - 210)
Date 07/13/1994
Bill No. H Amdt 497
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (173 - 245)
Date 03/24/1994
Bill No. HR 51
Outcome Passage - Bill Failed - House (153 - 277)
Date 11/21/1993
Bill No. HR 2492
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (225 - 201)
Date 10/27/1993
Bill No. H Amdt 188
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - House (253 - 167)
Date 06/30/1993
Bill No. HR 2492
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (213 - 211)
Date 06/30/1993
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