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Robert Byrd'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.

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National Key Votes
Bill No. S Amdt 211
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (45 - 55)
Date 03/17/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 214
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (49 - 50)
Date 03/17/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 220
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (63 - 37)
Date 03/17/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 229
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (49 - 51)
Date 03/17/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 244
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (47 - 53)
Date 03/17/2005
Bill No. S Con Res 18
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Passage - Joint Resolution Passed - Senate (51 - 49)
Date 03/17/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 168
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (49 - 51)
Date 03/16/2005
Bill No. S 256
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (74 - 25)
Date 03/10/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 47
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (46 - 53)
Date 03/08/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 128
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (38 - 61)
Date 03/07/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 44
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (46 - 49)
Date 03/07/2005
Bill No. S 397
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 02/16/2005
Bill No. S 5
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (72 - 26)
Date 02/10/2005
Bill No. PN 12
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (60 - 36)
Date 02/03/2005
Bill No. PN 8
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Confirmation Vote - Nomination Confirmed - Senate (85 - 13)
Date 01/26/2005
Bill No. HR 4520
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (69 - 17)
Date 10/11/2004
Bill No. S 2845
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (96 - 2)
Date 10/06/2004
Bill No. HR 1308
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (92 - 3)
Date 09/23/2004
Bill No. HR 4755
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (94 - 2)
Date 09/21/2004
Bill No. HR 4613
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - Senate (96 - 0)
Date 07/22/2004
Bill No. S J Res 40
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (48 - 50)
Date 07/14/2004
Bill No. S 2400
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (97 - 0)
Date 06/23/2004
Bill No. S Res 356
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Passage - Resolution Passed - Senate (92 - 0)
Date 05/21/2004
Bill No. HR 1350
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (95 - 3)
Date 05/13/2004
Bill No. S 1637
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (92 - 5)
Date 05/11/2004
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