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Phil Bredesen'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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Executive Actions
Bill No. HB 670
Outcome VETOESSSSSigned - Executive
Date 06/28/2010
Bill No. SB 3012
Outcome VETOESSSSVetoed - Executive
Date 05/18/2010
Bill No. HJR 369
Outcome VETOESSSSSigned - Executive
Date 03/03/2010
Bill No. HB 614
Outcome VETOESSSSSigned - Executive
Date 01/22/2010
Bill No. SB 1092
Outcome VETOESSSSVetoed - Executive
Date 07/01/2009
Bill No. SB 162
Outcome VETOESSSSSigned - Executive
Date 06/30/2009
Bill No. SB 2133
Outcome VETOESSSSSigned - Executive
Date 06/29/2009
Bill No. HB 390
Outcome VETOESSSSSigned - Executive
Date 06/12/2009
Bill No. SB 433
Outcome VETOESSSSSigned - Executive
Date 06/01/2009
Bill No. HB 962
Outcome VETOESSSSVetoed - Executive
Date 05/28/2009
Bill No. SB 1954
Outcome VETOESSSSSigned - Executive
Date 05/21/2009
Bill No. SB 393
Outcome VETOESSSSSigned - Executive
Date 05/13/2009
Bill No. HB 254
Outcome VETOESSSSSigned - Executive
Date 04/27/2009
Bill No. HB 3019
Outcome VETOESSSSVetoed - Executive
Date 06/13/2008
Bill No. SB 3419
Outcome VETOESSSSSigned - Executive
Date 05/28/2008
Bill No. HB 3658
Outcome VETOESSSSVetoed - Executive
Date 05/22/2008
Bill No. HB 1797
Outcome VETOESSSSVetoed - Executive
Date 07/27/2007
Bill No. SB 1727
Outcome VETOESSSSVetoed - Executive
Date 07/06/2007
Bill No. SB 1152
Outcome VETOESSSSSigned - Executive
Date 06/28/2007
Bill No. SB 1325
Outcome VETOESSSSSigned - Executive
Date 06/11/2007
Bill No. SB 2326
Outcome VETOESSSSSigned - Executive
Date 06/07/2007
We do not have any Key Votes for this candidate.
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