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Scores from Amendment Votes, too
As of tonight, VoteReports allows report creators and interest groups to add amendments to a report’s legislative agenda. After all, amendments can make a major impact on the ultimate effect of a bill.
To add an amendment to the report, just use the bill finder to search for your bill:
Any bill that has related amendments will have a link next to it “(amendments)”. Click that link, and you’ll get a pop-up with the amendments for that bill:
As with bills, you can click the little “url” link on the side to add a link to supporting information.
After scoring is complete, any score which includes votes on that amendment will show right alongside those for bills - you’ll be able to tell the amendments because they start with “S.Amdt.” or “H.Amdt.”. The end result will look something like this, when you click on a score:
We hope this amendment support means advocates can do a better job of capturing their perspective in the form of a report, to give a more accurate picture of the candidates. And in any case, we’ll be adding amendments to the interest groups over the next few months. Check out our first example:
