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Virgil Goode, Jr.'s Voting Records

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 7321
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (237 - 170)
Date 12/10/2008
Bill No. HR 1424
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - House (263 - 171)
Date 10/03/2008
Bill No. HR 6867
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (368 - 28)
Date 10/03/2008
Bill No. HR 3997
Outcome Concurrence Vote With Amendment - Concurrence Vote Failed - House (205 - 228)
Date 09/29/2008
Bill No. HR 7081
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (298 - 117)
Date 09/27/2008
Bill No. HR 7060
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (257 - 166)
Date 09/26/2008
Bill No. HR 2638
Outcome Concurrence Vote With Amendment - Concurrence Vote Passed - House (370 - 58)
Date 09/24/2008
Bill No. S 3001
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - House (392 - 39)
Date 09/24/2008
Bill No. HR 5244
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (312 - 112)
Date 09/23/2008
Bill No. HR 6604
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (283 - 133)
Date 09/18/2008
Bill No. HR 6842
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (266 - 152)
Date 09/17/2008
Bill No. HR 6899
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (236 - 189)
Date 09/16/2008
Bill No. HR 1338
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (247 - 178)
Date 07/31/2008
Bill No. HR 4137
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (380 - 49)
Date 07/31/2008
Bill No. HR 1108
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (326 - 102)
Date 07/30/2008
Bill No. HR 3999
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (367 - 55)
Date 07/24/2008
Bill No. HR 5501
Outcome Concurrence Vote - Concurrence Vote Passed - House (303 - 115)
Date 07/24/2008
Bill No. HR 3221
Outcome Concurrence Vote With Amendment - Concurrence Vote Passed - House (272 - 152)
Date 07/23/2008
Bill No. HR 6532
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (387 - 37)
Date 07/23/2008
Bill No. HR 6515
Outcome Passage - Bill Failed - House (244 - 173)
Date 07/17/2008
Bill No. H Amdt 1114
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - House (249 - 180)
Date 07/16/2008
Bill No. HR 415
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (242 - 175)
Date 07/16/2008
Bill No. HR 5803
Outcome Passage - Bill Failed - House (248 - 170)
Date 07/15/2008
Bill No. HR 6331
Outcome Override of Veto - Veto Override Passed - House (383 - 41)
Date 07/15/2008
Bill No. HR 5811
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (286 - 137)
Date 07/09/2008
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