Congressional Key Votes

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Key votes for 2007:

Project Vote Smart provides easy access to Congressional and state legislator voting records and maintains a collection of key votes grouped by issue. PVS uses the following criteria to select key votes:

Descriptions of the votes are written by PVS staff and based on information included in the Legislative Record, with additional background information from newspapers, magazines, etc.

Key votes selected by PVS staff go through an approval process before web site posting, with political scientists of opposing viewpoints reviewing both the selection and the content. This is to ensure clarity, relevance, nonpartisanship and accuracy. After the approval process is completed, the votes are ready to go into the database and subsequently on-line.