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Robert Byrd's Voting Records on Issue: Trade

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Current Issue:

Trade

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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 Amdt 279
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (31 - 65)
Date 02/04/2009
Bill No. HR 2419
Outcome Override of Veto - Veto Override Passed - Senate (82 - 13)
Date 05/22/2008
Bill No. HR 2419
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (81 - 15)
Date 05/15/2008
Bill No. S Amdt 4299
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (73 - 23)
Date 03/14/2008
Bill No. HR 3688
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (77 - 18)
Date 12/04/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 2797
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (75 - 23)
Date 09/11/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 1519
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (70 - 23)
Date 06/19/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 1010
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (49 - 40)
Date 05/07/2007
Bill No. HR 5684
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (62 - 32)
Date 09/19/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4999
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (43 - 55)
Date 09/13/2006
Bill No. S 3569
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (60 - 34)
Date 06/29/2006
Bill No. HR 3045
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (55 - 45)
Date 07/28/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 1351
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (47 - 51)
Date 07/26/2005
Bill No. S 1307
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (54 - 45)
Date 06/30/2005
Bill No. HR 4520
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (69 - 17)
Date 10/11/2004
Bill No. S 1637
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (92 - 5)
Date 05/11/2004
Bill No. HR 2738
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (65 - 32)
Date 07/31/2003
Bill No. HR 2739
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (66 - 32)
Date 07/31/2003
Bill No. HR 3009
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (64 - 34)
Date 08/01/2002
Bill No. S 812
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (78 - 21)
Date 07/31/2002
Bill No. HR 4444
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (83 - 15)
Date 09/19/2000
Bill No. S Amdt 4132
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (65 - 32)
Date 09/13/2000
Bill No. HR 434
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (77 - 19)
Date 05/11/2000
Bill No. HR 434
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (76 - 19)
Date 11/03/1999
Bill No. S Amdt 890
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (22 - 77)
Date 07/17/1997
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