2004 Senate Votes

Important Votes: Please contact your legislator. Either thank them or express disappointment with their vote. 

Vote 1: Support the Citizen Standards. Marko was absent. Independent, Kiscaden, voted with the DFL. All Republicans voted yes. Failed: 35 to 31. 

Vote 2: Include the teaching of national sovereignty and self evident truth. Dean Johnson abstained. Marko was absent. Independent, Kiscaden, voted with the DFL. All Republicans voted yes. Failed: 34 to 31 

Vote 3: Require that in the Life Sciences all scientific evidence is presented on controversial issues, such as evolution. Marko and Kiscaden were absent. All Republicans voted yes. Failed: 34 to 31 

Vote 4: Include the benchmark that Abraham Lincoln considered that the principles of the Declaration were believed by the
founders to be true for all people at all time. Marko and Kiscaden were absent. Republicans Kierlin, Koering, Ourada, and Senjem sided with the DFL (see highlights). Failed: 39 to 26

Vote 5: Require schools and libraries to use software that blocks internet pornography. Marko and Kiscaden were absent.  Langseth and Murphy abstained. All Republicans voted yes. Failed: 32 to 31

Vote 6: Vote to accept the Kelley standards and the entire Senate education policy bill. Marko and Kiscaden were absent. All Republicans voted no. Passed: 34 to 31

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