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Approved 86 to 11, July 12. 2. Antimissile Tests: Vote to kill an amendment to a defense authorization bill that would require more stringent and thorough testing of a proposed national missile defense system.

In the decades after the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed voting restrictions such as literacy tests, voting rights lawyers continued to challenge discriminatory election practices still on the books in southern states – forcing changes to ensure their compliance with the Voting Rights Act.

In 1996 the National Assessment Governing Board, a federal body that oversees the tests, voted to drop the Trend NAEP.

On a crucial test vote on Tuesday night, Vice President Dick Cheney broke a 50-50 toe to give Republicans a victory.

Senate Republicans lost a crucial test vote over President Bush's nomination of Miguel Estrada to a federal appeals court.

A test vote clearing the way for debate on the spending bill easily cleared the House on Wednesday.

Democratic leaders said they planned to bring the tax repeal measure to the floor next week for a test vote.

The Senate set a test vote for 1 am on Sunday, a middle-of-the-night roll vote that underscored the limited time available to lawmakers.

Those potentially vulnerable lawmakers provide another consideration for leaders weighing whether to set an early test vote on what for some is a politically sensitive subject back home.

Mr. Daschle today set up that test vote for Wednesday and said the Senate would probably resume debate on a separate energy bill until then.

The measure, which faces a crucial test vote early next week, would provide new staff members and authority to the Commodities Futures Trading Committee to pursue suspected cases of excessive speculation.