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Dick Dearden's Voting Records

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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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Iowa Key Votes
Bill No. HF 2459
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (26 - 24)
Date 04/22/2016
Bill No. HF 2460
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (27 - 23)
Date 04/22/2016
Bill No. SF 2323
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (27 - 23)
Date 04/19/2016
Bill No. SF 2284
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (27 - 21)
Date 03/08/2016
Bill No. SF 2252
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (28 - 22)
Date 03/02/2016
Bill No. SF 2188
Outcome Passage - Bill Failed - Senate (24 - 25)
Date 03/01/2016
Bill No. SF 2222
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (26 - 22)
Date 02/29/2016
Bill No. SF 2289
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (32 - 16)
Date 02/25/2016
Bill No. SF 484
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (26 - 19)
Date 04/15/2015
Bill No. SF 227
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (28 - 22)
Date 03/25/2015
Bill No. SF 232
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (26 - 23)
Date 03/24/2015
Bill No. SF 331
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (26 - 20)
Date 03/19/2015
Bill No. SF 437
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (26 - 24)
Date 03/18/2015
Bill No. SF 334
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (26 - 24)
Date 03/17/2015
Bill No. SF 166
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (32 - 16)
Date 03/12/2015
Bill No. SF 219
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (36 - 13)
Date 02/24/2015
Bill No. SF 257
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (28 - 21)
Date 02/24/2015
Bill No. SF 269
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (27 - 22)
Date 02/24/2015
Bill No. SF 270
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (26 - 23)
Date 02/24/2015
Bill No. SF 171
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (26 - 24)
Date 02/10/2015
Bill No. SF 2360
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (38 - 8)
Date 05/01/2014
Bill No. SF 2360
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (36 - 12)
Date 04/24/2014
Bill No. SF 2347
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (28 - 21)
Date 04/23/2014
Bill No. HF 2438
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (26 - 21)
Date 03/27/2014
Bill No. SF 2318
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (26 - 19)
Date 03/18/2014
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