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Butch Otter's Voting Records on Issue: Business and Consumers

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Business and Consumers

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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

Business and Consumers
Bill No. H 139
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 04/06/2017
Bill No. H 372
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/24/2016
Bill No. H 152
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 04/21/2015
Bill No. S 1314
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/26/2014
Bill No. S 1117
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/01/2013
Bill No. H 248
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/28/2013
Bill No. HB 55
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/22/2013
Bill No. S 1295
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/03/2012
Bill No. S 1166
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 05/06/2009
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 586
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/01/2008
Bill No. H 592
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 04/01/2008
Bill No. S 1393
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/28/2008
Bill No. H 348
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/25/2008
Bill No. H 561
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/24/2008
Bill No. H 562
Outcome Signed - Executive
Date 03/24/2008
Bill No. H 121
Outcome Vetoed - Executive
Date 03/22/2007

National Key Votes
Bill No. HR 5252
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (321 - 101)
Date 06/08/2006
Bill No. HR 4520
Outcome Conference Report Vote - Conference Report Adopted - House (280 - 141)
Date 10/07/2004
Bill No. HR 4754
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (397 - 18)
Date 07/08/2004
Bill No. HR 339
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (276 - 139)
Date 03/10/2004
Bill No. HR 1561
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - House (379 - 28)
Date 03/03/2004
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