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John Kerry's Voting Records on Issue: Government Budget and Spending

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Government Budget and Spending

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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 325
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (64 - 34)
Date 01/31/2013
Bill No. HR 152
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (62 - 36)
Date 01/28/2013
Bill No. H J Res 117
Outcome Passage - Joint Resolution Passed - Senate (62 - 30)
Date 09/22/2012
Bill No. S Amdt 1472
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (40 - 59)
Date 02/02/2012
Bill No. H J Res 98
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (44 - 54)
Date 01/26/2012
Bill No. S J Res 10
Outcome Passage - Amendment Rejected - Senate (47 - 53)
Date 12/14/2011
Bill No. S J Res 24
Outcome Passage - Amendment Rejected - Senate (21 - 79)
Date 12/14/2011
Bill No. HR 2608
Outcome Concurrence Vote With Amendment - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (79 - 12)
Date 09/26/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 655
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (59 - 36)
Date 09/23/2011
Bill No. S 365
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (74 - 26)
Date 08/02/2011
Bill No. S 627
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (50 - 49)
Date 07/31/2011
Bill No. S 627
Outcome Tabling Vote - Bill Tabled - Senate (59 - 41)
Date 07/29/2011
Bill No. HR 2560
Outcome Tabling Vote - Bill Tabled - Senate (51 - 46)
Date 07/22/2011
Bill No. S 782
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (49 - 51)
Date 06/21/2011
Bill No. H Con Res 34
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (40 - 57)
Date 05/25/2011
Bill No. S Con Res 21
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (42 - 55)
Date 05/25/2011
Bill No. HR 1473
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (81 - 19)
Date 04/14/2011
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. HR 3082
Outcome Concurrence Vote With Amendment - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (79 - 16)
Date 12/21/2010
Bill No. S Amdt 4697
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (39 - 56)
Date 11/30/2010
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