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Al Franken'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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National Key Votes
Bill No. HR 1
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (51 - 48)
Date 12/20/2017
Bill No. HR 1
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (51 - 49)
Date 12/02/2017
Bill No. H J Res 111
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (51 - 50)
Date 10/24/2017
Bill No. HR 2266
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (82 - 17)
Date 10/24/2017
Bill No. HR 2266
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (79 - 16)
Date 10/23/2017
Bill No. H Con Res 71
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (51 - 49)
Date 10/19/2017
Bill No. HR 2810
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (89 - 8)
Date 09/18/2017
Bill No. SA 871
Outcome Tabling Vote - Amendment Tabled - Senate (61 - 36)
Date 09/13/2017
Bill No. HR 601
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (80 - 17)
Date 09/07/2017
Bill No. S Amdt 667
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (49 - 51)
Date 07/28/2017
Bill No. HR 3364
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (98 - 2)
Date 07/27/2017
Bill No. S Amdt 340
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate
Date 07/27/2017
Bill No. S Amdt 271
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (45 - 55)
Date 07/26/2017
Bill No. S Amdt 270
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (43 - 57)
Date 07/25/2017
Bill No. S 722
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (98 - 2)
Date 06/15/2017
Bill No. PN 52
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (82 - 13)
Date 05/22/2017
Bill No. PN 52
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (86 - 12)
Date 05/18/2017
Bill No. PN 42
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Senate (82 - 14)
Date 05/11/2017
Bill No. PN 42
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (81 - 15)
Date 05/11/2017
Bill No. HR 244
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (79 - 18)
Date 05/04/2017
Bill No. PN 47
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (61 - 37)
Date 05/02/2017
Bill No. PN 47
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (60 - 36)
Date 05/01/2017
Bill No. PN 88
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (60 - 38)
Date 04/27/2017
Bill No. PN 88
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (61 - 39)
Date 04/26/2017
Bill No. PN 55
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Senate (54 - 45)
Date 04/07/2017
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