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Lamar Smith'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.

For more information about the legislative process, see here.

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National Key Votes
Bill No. S 756
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - House (358 - 36)
Date 12/20/2018
Bill No. HR 6784
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (196 - 180)
Date 11/16/2018
Bill No. H Res 1142
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (201 - 187)
Date 11/14/2018
Bill No. HR 6760
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (220 - 191)
Date 09/28/2018
Bill No. HR 6757
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (240 - 177)
Date 09/27/2018
Bill No. HR 6157
Outcome Conference Report Vote - House (361 - 61)
Date 09/26/2018
Bill No. HR 1911
Outcome Passage - House (393 - 2)
Date 09/13/2018
Bill No. HR 5895
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (377 - 20)
Date 09/13/2018
Bill No. HR 6691
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (247 - 152)
Date 09/07/2018
Bill No. HR 6439
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (272 - 119)
Date 09/04/2018
Bill No. HR 5515
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (359 - 54)
Date 07/26/2018
Bill No. HR 6199
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (277 - 142)
Date 07/25/2018
Bill No. HR 6311
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (242 - 176)
Date 07/25/2018
Bill No. H Con Res 119
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (229 - 180)
Date 07/19/2018
Bill No. HR 6147
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (217 - 199)
Date 07/19/2018
Bill No. HR 50
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (230 - 168)
Date 07/13/2018
Bill No. HR 3281
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (233 - 184)
Date 07/12/2018
Bill No. HR 200
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (222 - 193)
Date 07/11/2018
Bill No. HR 6136
Outcome Passage - Bill Failed - House (121 - 301)
Date 06/27/2018
Bill No. HR 2083
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (288 - 116)
Date 06/26/2018
Bill No. HR 6
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (396 - 14)
Date 06/22/2018
Bill No. HR 2
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (213 - 211)
Date 06/21/2018
Bill No. HR 4760
Outcome Passage - Bill Failed - House (193 - 231)
Date 06/21/2018
Bill No. HR 5797
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (261 - 155)
Date 06/20/2018
Bill No. HR 2851
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (239 - 142)
Date 06/15/2018
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