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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 J Res 20
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 06/29/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 177
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 03/17/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 172
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 03/16/2005
Bill No. S Amdt 44
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 03/03/2005
Bill No. S Res 356
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - House
Date 05/10/2004
Bill No. S Amdt 865
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 06/09/2003
Bill No. S Amdt 272
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 03/18/2003
Bill No. S 1447
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 09/21/2001
Bill No. S 625
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 03/27/2001
Bill No. S Amdt 145
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 03/26/2001
Bill No. S 565
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 03/19/2001
Bill No. S 27
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 01/22/2001
Bill No. S Amdt 3473
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 06/19/2000
Bill No. S Amdt 2321
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 10/20/1999
Bill No. S Amdt 1499
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 08/02/1999
Bill No. S Amdt 178
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 03/25/1999
Bill No. S Amdt 2438
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 05/21/1998
Bill No. S Amdt 2175
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 03/30/1998
Bill No. S Amdt 527
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 06/26/1997
Bill No. S Amdt 2401
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 08/10/1995
Bill No. S Amdt 1446
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 06/21/1995
Bill No. S 641
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 03/28/1995
Bill No. S Amdt 1
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 01/04/1995
Bill No. S 636
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 03/23/1993
Bill No. S 21
Outcome HERE!!!!!!!!!! Introduced - Senate
Date 01/21/1993
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