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Tom Sands' Voting Records on Issue: Business and Consumers

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Business and Consumers

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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. SF 2360
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - House (77 - 20)
Date 04/30/2014
Bill No. HF 2475
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (71 - 26)
Date 05/07/2012
Bill No. SF 2389
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - House (52 - 47)
Date 03/29/2010
Bill No. Amdt 8381
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (44 - 53)
Date 03/10/2010
Bill No. Amdt 8140
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (44 - 52)
Date 02/17/2010
Bill No. Amdt 8145
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - House (42 - 53)
Date 02/17/2010
Bill No. HF 333
Outcome Passage - Bill Failed - House (49 - 49)
Date 02/19/2009
Bill No. HF 311
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (64 - 33)
Date 02/18/2009
Bill No. HF 2686
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (84 - 16)
Date 04/16/2008
Bill No. HF 2212
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (54 - 45)
Date 04/08/2008
Bill No. HF 2145
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (81 - 16)
Date 03/20/2008
Bill No. HF 2212
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - House (59 - 40)
Date 03/12/2008
Bill No. HF 2212
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (56 - 44)
Date 02/19/2008
Bill No. SF 263
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (71 - 26)
Date 04/18/2007
Bill No. SF 128
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (58 - 40)
Date 03/13/2007
Bill No. HF 5
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (84 - 12)
Date 02/01/2007
Bill No. HF 2351
Outcome Override of Veto - Veto Override Passed - House (90 - 8)
Date 07/14/2006
Bill No. SF 2377
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (66 - 25)
Date 05/03/2006
Bill No. HF 2671
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (69 - 25)
Date 03/16/2006
Bill No. SF 2330
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (80 - 18)
Date 03/14/2006
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