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Rick Santorum'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. PN 1396
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (80 - 11)
Date 12/07/2006
Bill No. PN 2191
Outcome Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (95 - 2)
Date 12/06/2006
Bill No. HR 6061
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (80 - 19)
Date 09/29/2006
Bill No. S 3930
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (65 - 34)
Date 09/28/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 5087
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (48 - 51)
Date 09/28/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 5095
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (46 - 53)
Date 09/28/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 5104
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (47 - 52)
Date 09/28/2006
Bill No. HR 5684
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (62 - 32)
Date 09/19/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4936
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (41 - 57)
Date 09/13/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4999
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (43 - 55)
Date 09/13/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4909
Outcome Tabling Vote - Bill Tabled - Senate (51 - 44)
Date 09/07/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4882
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (30 - 70)
Date 09/06/2006
Bill No. HR 5970
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (56 - 42)
Date 08/03/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4775
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (94 - 3)
Date 08/02/2006
Bill No. S 3711
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (71 - 25)
Date 08/01/2006
Bill No. S 403
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (65 - 34)
Date 07/25/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4689
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (48 - 51)
Date 07/25/2006
Bill No. HR 810
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (63 - 37)
Date 07/18/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4615
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (84 - 16)
Date 07/13/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4659
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (29 - 71)
Date 07/13/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4553
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (50 - 50)
Date 07/12/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4587
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (50 - 50)
Date 07/12/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4560
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (87 - 11)
Date 07/11/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 4563
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (32 - 66)
Date 07/11/2006
Bill No. S 3569
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (60 - 34)
Date 06/29/2006
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