NOW - Key Votes

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Key Votes: Congress

Reproductive Rights
House Votes
Failed	De-Funding Family Planning Programs 07/19/2007
Passed	Denying Contraception to Injured Women Overseas (Passed) 07/19/2005
Failed	Repeal Overseas Abortion Ban (Defeated) 05/25/2005
Passed	Teen Endangerment Act (Passed) 04/27/2005
Failed	Exempt Relatives from Criminal Prosecution (Defeated) 04/27/2005

Senate Votes
Passed	Boxer Amdt. No. 2719; To prohibit the application of certain restrictive eligibility requirements to foreign nongovernmental organizations with respect to the provision of assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. 09/06/2007
Passed	Brownback Amdt. No. 2707 09/06/2007
Failed	Allard Amdt No. 2535 As Modified; To codify the unborn child rule. 08/02/2007
Failed	Reject Teen Endangerment Act (Passed) 09/30/2006
Passed	Teen Endangerment Act (Passed) 07/25/2006
Failed	Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Real Sex Education (Defeated) 07/25/2006
Passed	Repeal of International Gag Rule (Passed) 04/05/2005
Failed	Prevention of Unintended Pregnancies (Defeated) 03/17/2005
Failed	Making Abortion Clinic Terrorists Liable (Defeated) 03/08/2005
Passed	Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 10/21/2003

Violence
House Votes
Failed	Sense of the House: Withdraw from Iraq (Defeated) 11/19/2005
Passed	Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization (Passed) 09/28/2005
Passed	Expanding Hate Crimes Laws (Passed) 09/14/2005

Lesbian Rights
Senate Votes
Failed	Denying Equal Marriage Rights (Defeated) 06/07/2006

House Votes
Failed	Marriage Discrimination in U.S. Constitution (Defeated) 07/18/2006

Immigration
House Votes
Passed	Felony Immigration/Building Border Fence (Passed) 12/16/2005

Senate Votes
Passed	Restrictive Immigration Bill (Passed) 05/25/2006

Judicial Nominees
Senate Votes
Confirmed	Nomination of Samuel A. Alito, Jr., as Supreme Court Associate Justice (Confirmed) 01/31/2006
Passed	Cloture Motion: Samuel A. Alito, Jr. (passed) 01/30/2006
Confirmed	Nomination of John G. Roberts to be Supreme Court Chief Justice (Confirmed) 09/29/2005

Economic Equity
Senate Votes
Failed	Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Motion to Proceed to Consider H.R. 2831; Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2007 04/23/2008
Failed	Motion to Invoke Cloture on H.R.2; Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 01/24/2007
Failed	More Tax Cuts For Millionaire (Failed) 08/04/2006
Failed	Minimum Wage Increase (Defeated) 10/19/2005
Failed	Opposing Benefit Cuts under Social Security (Defeated) 03/15/2005
Passed	Regressive Bankruptcy Reform (Passed) 03/08/2005
Passed	Restrictions on Class Actions (Passed) 02/10/2005
Failed	Exempting Civil Rights and Wage-An-Hour Lawsuits (Defeated) 02/09/2005

House Votes
Passed	Advancing Pay Equity 07/31/2008
Passed	Prohibiting Pay Discrimination 07/31/2007
Passed	Increasing Minimum Wage 01/10/2007
Passed	Increase Minimum Wage, but Repeal Estate Tax (Defeated) 07/29/2006
Passed	Prevent Minimum Wage Increase (Passed) 06/22/2006
Passed	Squeezing Social Spending II (Passed) 12/14/2005
Passed	Reward the Rich, Drain the Treasury (Passed) 12/08/2005
Passed	Cutting Human Needs Programs (Passed) 11/18/2005
Failed	Squeezing Social Spending I (Defeated) 11/17/2005
Passed	Giving Multinational Corporations Carte Blanche (Passed) 07/28/2005
Failed	Eliminating Special Treatment for Wal-Mart (Defeated) 06/24/2005
Passed	Helping the Rich, Shrinking Government Services (Passed) 04/28/2005
Passed	Regressive Bankruptcy Reform (Passed) 04/14/2005

Civil Rights
Senate Votes
Passed	Extension of Voting Rights Act (Passed) 07/20/2006

House Votes
Passed	Strengthening Hate Crimes Law 05/03/2007
Failed	Amendment to VRA Limiting Voting Rights (Defeated) 06/28/2006
Passed	PATRIOT Act Expansion and Reauthorization (Passed) 12/14/2005

Women's Health
Senate Votes
Passed	Funding Stem Cell Research (Passed) 07/18/2006
Failed	Health Insurance Bill Skirts Regulations (Defeated) 05/11/2006
Passed	Slash Medicare and Medicaid Funds (Passed) 11/03/2005
Passed	Opposing Medicaid Cuts (Passed) 03/17/2005

House Votes
Failed	Denying Contraception to Overseas Health Centers 06/21/2007
Passed	Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act 01/11/2007
Failed	Reversing the Ban on Stem Cell Research (Defeated) 07/19/2006

Education
Senate Votes
Passed	Increasing Education Funding (Passed) 03/17/2005

Other
Senate Votes
Passed	Higher Education Fellowships 07/31/2008
Failed	Prohibiting Pay Discrimination 04/23/2008
Passed	Health Care for Pregnant Women 03/13/2008
Failed	Teen Endangerment Enforced 03/13/2008
Passed	Abortion Ban at Indian Health Service Clinics 02/26/2008
Confirmed	Judicial Nominee Leslie Southwick 10/24/2007
Failed	De-Funding Family Planning Programs 10/18/2007
Passed	Strengthening Hate Crime Law 09/27/2007
Failed	Denying Contraception to Overseas Health Centers 09/06/2007
Passed	Global Gag Rule -- Full Repeal 09/06/2007
Failed	Promoting Fetal "Rights" 08/02/2007
Failed	Vote to End the War in Iraq 07/18/2007
Failed	Enforcement of Immigration 05/24/2007
Passed	Budget Priorities 05/17/2007
Failed	Medicare Prescription Drug Negotiation 04/18/2007
Passed	Funding Stem Cell Research 04/12/2007
Failed	Minimum Wage Increased 01/24/2007

House Votes
Passed	Childrens Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 01/14/2009	--
Passed	Restoring ADA Protections 06/25/2008
Passed	Paid Leave for Federal Employees 06/19/2008
Passed	Delay Bush Administration Medicaid Regulations 04/23/2008
Failed	Consumer Protections for Mortgage Loans 11/15/2007
Failed	Override SCHIP Veto 10/18/2007
Passed	Promoting Women in STEM 08/02/2007
Passed	Contraceptives to Foreign Service Providers 06/21/2007
Passed	Funding Stem Cell Research 06/07/2007
Passed	Budget Priorities 05/17/2007
Passed	Gulf Coast Hurricane Aid 03/21/2007