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Tom Harkin's Voting Records

See Tom Harkin's Key Votes

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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Selected Sponsorships
Bill No. S Amdt 3991
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 05/13/2010
Bill No. S Amdt 3276
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 12/19/2009
Bill No. S Amdt 2791
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 11/30/2009
Bill No. S Amdt 2786
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 11/19/2009
Bill No. S 510
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 03/03/2009
Bill No. S 181
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 01/08/2009
Bill No. S Amdt 5064
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 07/08/2008
Bill No. S Amdt 3907
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 02/05/2008
Bill No. S Amdt 3875
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 12/18/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 3695
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 12/07/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 2909
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 09/19/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 2022
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 09/17/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 2087
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 07/11/2007
Bill No. S J Res 14
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 05/24/2007
Bill No. S J Res 9
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 03/08/2007
Bill No. S 5
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 01/04/2007
Bill No. S Amdt 4087
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 05/22/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 3074
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 03/16/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 3013
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 03/14/2006
Bill No. S Amdt 2601
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 11/17/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2519
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 11/10/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2351
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 11/01/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2194
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 10/25/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 2033
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 10/05/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 1660
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 09/12/2005
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