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Larry Craig's Voting Records on Issue: Animals and Wildlife
Issue
- Animals and Wildlife down
- Abortion
- Abortion and Reproductive
- Agriculture and Food
- Animals and Wildlife
- Arts, Entertainment, and History
- Business and Consumers
- Campaign Finance and Elections
- Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
- Constitution
- Crime
- Death Penalty
- Defense
- Drugs
- Economy and Fiscal
- Education
- Employment and Affirmative Action
- Energy
- Entitlements and the Safety Net
- Environment
- Executive Branch
- Federal, State and Local Relations
- Finance and Banking
- Food Processing and Sales
- Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Aid
- Gambling and Gaming
- Government Budget and Spending
- Government Operations
- Guns
- Health and Health Care
- Health Insurance
- Higher Education
- Housing and Property
- Immigration
- Indigenous Peoples
- Infrastructure
- Judicial Branch
- K-12 Education
- Labor Unions
- Legal
- Legislative Branch
- Marijuana Legalization
- Marriage
- Marriage, Family, and Children
- Military Personnel
- Minors and Children
- Monetary Policy
- National Security
- Natural Resources and Energy
- Oil and Gas
- Religion
- Science
- Senior Citizens
- Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
- Stem Cell Research
- Taxes
- Technology and Communication
- Trade
- Transportation
- Unemployed and Low-Income
- Veterans
- Women
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National Key Votes
| Date | Bill No. | Bill Title | Outcome | Vote |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 19, 2003 | S Amdt 272 | ANWR Oil Drilling Amendment | Amendment Adopted - Senate (52 - 48) |
Nay |
| April 6, 2000 | S Amdt 2955 | Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Drilling amendment | Amendment Tabled - Senate (51 - 49) |
Yea |
| Sept. 17, 1996 | S Amdt 5353 | Federal Land Grazing Fee Amendment | Amendment Not Tabled - Senate (50 - 50) |
Yea |
| March 21, 1996 | S 1459 | Public Rangelands Management Act of 1996 | Bill Passed - Senate (50 - 47) |
Yea |
| Dec. 14, 1995 | HR 1977 | Interior Department FY96 Appropriations bill | Conference Report Adopted - Senate (58 - 40) |
Yea |
| Sept. 28, 1994 | HR 4602 | Interior Department FY95 Appropriations Bill | Conference Report Adopted - Senate (92 - 7) |
Yea |
| April 13, 1994 | S 21 | California Desert Protection Act of 1994 | Bill Passed - Senate (69 - 29) |
Nay |
| Nov. 9, 1993 | HR 2520 | Interior Department Fiscal Year 1994 Appropriations Bill | Conference Report Adopted - Senate (91 - 9) |
Yea |
About the Selection and Descriptions of Key Votes
Project Vote Smart provides easy access to Congressional and State voting records and maintains a collection of key votes grouped by issue. Key votes typically include the initial passage of legislation and final conference report vote versions (the compromised versions of bills passed in separate House and Senate versions). Vote Smart uses the following criteria to select key votes:
- The vote should be helpful in portraying how a member stands on a particular issue
- The vote should be clear for any person to understand
- The vote has received media attention
- The vote was passed or defeated by a very close margin
- Occasionally, if a specific bill is consistently inquired about on the Voter's Research Hotline, the vote will be added
Descriptions of the votes are written by Vote Smart staff and based on information included in the Congressional Record, State House Journals, or Senate Journals, with additional background information from newspapers, magazines, etc. Vote Smart provides summaries for each selected key vote. The summary does not necessarily reflect the final version of the bill.
The Key Votes Program follows Project Vote Smart's strict policies, procedures and structure that guarantee absolute impartiality and accuracy. In order to ensure that all Key Votes are non-partisan in their selection and language, each is approved by a group of over 160 political scientists and journalists from all fifty states.
