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Butch Otter'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.

For more information about the legislative process, see here.

Executive Actions
Bill No. S 1419
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/12/2010
Bill No. S 1418
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/31/2010
Bill No. H 303
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 05/18/2009
Bill No. H 374
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 05/18/2009
Bill No. H 376
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 05/12/2009
Bill No. H 262
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 05/05/2009
Bill No. H 276
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/23/2009
Bill No. S 1186
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/16/2009
Bill No. H 173
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/14/2009
Bill No. H 680
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/15/2008
Bill No. H 599
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/11/2008
Bill No. H 657
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/01/2008
Bill No. H 592
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/01/2008
Bill No. H 588
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/31/2008
Bill No. H 562
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/24/2008
Bill No. H 561
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/24/2008
Bill No. H 336
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/05/2007
Bill No. H 81
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 03/20/2007

National Key Votes
Bill No. HR 3
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (412 - 8)
Date 07/29/2005
Bill No. HR 3
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (417 - 9)
Date 03/10/2005
Bill No. HR 2417
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (264 - 163)
Date 11/20/2003
Bill No. HR 2754
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (387 - 36)
Date 11/18/2003
Bill No. H Res 198
Outcome Passage - Resolution Passed - House (394 - 31)
Date 10/16/2003
Bill No. H Con Res 95
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (216 - 211)
Date 04/11/2003
Bill No. H Con Res 95
Outcome Passage - Resolution Passed - House (215 - 212)
Date 03/21/2003
Bill No. H J Res 2
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (338 - 83)
Date 02/13/2003
Bill No. HR 2506
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (357 - 66)
Date 12/19/2001
Bill No. HR 2944
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (302 - 84)
Date 12/06/2001
Bill No. HR 2299
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (371 - 11)
Date 11/30/2001
Bill No. HR 2330
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (379 - 33)
Date 11/13/2001
Bill No. HR 2620
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (401 - 18)
Date 11/08/2001
Bill No. HR 2647
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (374 - 52)
Date 11/01/2001
Bill No. HR 2216
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (375 - 30)
Date 07/20/2001
Bill No. H Con Res 83
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (221 - 207)
Date 05/09/2001
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