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Congressional Key Votes
Key votes for 'HR 1585':
| 12/12/2007 | HR 1585 | National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 | Conference Report Adopted-House
(370 - 49) | | 10/01/2007 | HR 1585 | National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 | Bill Passed-Senate
(92 - 3) | | 09/26/2007 | S Amdt 2997 | Expressing the Sense of Congress Regarding Federalism in Iraq | Amendment Adopted-Senate
(75 - 23) | | 09/26/2007 | S Amdt 3017 | Expressing the Sense of Congress Regarding Iran and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps | Amendment Adopted-Senate
(76 - 22) | | 09/21/2007 | S Amdt 2898 | Iraq Troop Reduction Amendment | Amendment Rejected-Senate
(47 - 47) | | 09/20/2007 | S Amdt 2934 | Expressing Support for General Petraeus and All Members of the Armed Forces | Amendment Adopted-Senate
(72 - 25) | | 09/20/2007 | S Amdt 2947 | Expressing Support for All Men and Women in the U.S. Armed Forces | Amendment Rejected-Senate
(50 - 47) | | 09/19/2007 | S Amdt 2022 | Habeas Corpus for Detainees of the United States | Cloture Not Invoked-Senate
(56 - 43) | | 09/19/2007 | S Amdt 2909 | Time Between Troop Deployments | Amendment Rejected-Senate
(56 - 44) | | 07/18/2007 | S Amdt 2087 | Iraq Troop Reduction | Cloture Not Invoked-Senate
(52 - 47) | | 05/17/2007 | H Amdt 197 | Guantanamo Transfer Plan | Amendment Adopted-House
(220 - 208) |
Selection and Descriptions of Key Votes
Project Vote Smart provides easy access to Congressional and state legislator voting records and maintains a collection of key votes grouped by issue. PVS uses the following criteria to select key votes:
- The vote should be helpful in portraying how a Legislator stands on a particular issue
- The vote should be clear for any person to understand
- The vote has received national media attention
- The vote was passed or defeated by a very close margin
- Occasionally, a specific bill is consistently inquired about on the PVS Hotline; the vote is added to the web site
Descriptions of the votes are written by PVS staff and based on information included in the Legislative Record, with additional background information from newspapers, magazines, etc.
Key votes selected by PVS staff go through an approval process before web site posting, with political scientists of opposing viewpoints reviewing both the selection and the content. This is to ensure clarity, relevance, nonpartisanship and accuracy. After the approval process is completed, the votes are ready to go into the database and subsequently on-line.
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