Thad Cochran on Financial Regulation

RepublicanMS

Financial Regulation235 votes · 59.9/100 consistent

RegulateDeregulate

408 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Financial Regulation. 235 of them counted toward the score above: 89 toward “Regulate” and 146 toward “Deregulate”.

The other 173 did not count: 165 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 8 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
2005-03-10	To limit the exemption for asset protection trusts.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-10	To protect disabled veterans from means testing in bankruptcy under certain circumstances.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Deregulate
2005-03-10	To modify the definition of disinterested person in the Bankruptcy Code.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-03-10	To limit claims in bankruptcy by certain unsecured creditors.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-10	To amend the definition of current monthly income.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-03-10	To exempt debtors whose financial problems were caused by failure to receive alimony or child support, or both, from means testing.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Regulate
2005-03-09	To provide a maximum amount for a homestead exemption under State law.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-09	To modify the bill to protect families, and for other purposes.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-03-09	To provide for the potential disallowance of certain claims.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-03-09	To increase the accrual period for the employee wage priority in bankruptcy.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-09	To clarify that the means test does not apply to debtors below median income.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Regulate
2005-03-08	To strike certain small business related bankruptcy provisions in the bill.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-03-08	A bill to amend title 11 of the United States Code, and for other purposes.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-03-08	To prohibit the discharge, in bankruptcy, of a debt resulting from the debtor's unlawful interference with the provision of lawful goods or services or damage to property used to provide lawful goods or services.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-07	To promote job creation, family time, and small business preservation in the adjustment of the Federal minimum wage.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-03-07	To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2005-03-03	To protect employees and retirees from corporate practices that deprive them of their earnings and retirement savings when a business files for bankruptcy.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-03	To amend the wage priority provision and to amend the payment of insurance benefits to retirees.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-03	To limit the exemption for asset protection trusts.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-03	To discourage predatory lending practices.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-03	To exempt debtors from means testing if their financial problems were caused by identity theft.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-03	To limit the amount of interest that can be charged on any extension of credit to 30 percent.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-02	To preserve existing bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill or disabled family members.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-02	To provide protection for medical debt homeowners.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-02	To exempt debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems from means testing.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-02	To require enhanced disclosure to consumers regarding the consequences of making only minimum required payments in the repayment of credit card debt, and for other purposes.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-02	To provide a homestead floor for the elderly.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-01	To protect servicemembers and veterans from means testing in bankruptcy, to disallow certain claims by lenders charging usurious interest rates to servicemembers, and to allow servicemembers to exempt property based on the law of the State of their premilitary residence.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2005-03-01	To clarify the safe harbor with respect to debtors who have serious medical conditions or who have been called or ordered to active duty in the Armed Forces and low income veterans.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Regulate
2003-11-05	A bill to amend the Fair Credit Reporting Act, to prevent identity theft, improve resolution of consumer disputes, improve the accuracy of consumer records, make improvements in the use of, and consumer access to, credit information, and for other purposes.H.R. 2622 · 108th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Regulate
2003-11-04	To provide for data-mining reports to Congress.S. 1753 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2003-11-04	To create a national opt-out standard for affiliate sharing to prevent personal customer information from being shared by affiliated companies.S. 1753 · 108th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Deregulate
2002-11-19	A bill to ensure the continued financial capacity of insurers to provide coverage for risks from terrorism.H.R. 3210 · 107th Congress · On the Conference Report	Yea	Direction not readable
2002-11-19	A bill to ensure the continued financial capacity of insurers to provide coverage for risks from terrorism.H.R. 3210 · 107th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2002-07-25	A bill to protect investors by improving the accuracy and reliability of corporate disclosures made pursuant to the securities laws, and for other purposes.H.R. 3763 · 107th Congress · On the Conference Report	Yea	Regulate
2002-07-15	An original bill to improve quality and transparency in financial reporting and independent audits and accounting services for public companies, to create a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, to enhance the standard setting process for accounting practices, to strengthen the independence of firms that audit public companies, to increase corporate responsibility and the usefulness of corporate financial disclosure, to protect the objectivity and independence of securities analysts, to improve Securities and Exchange Commission resources and oversight, and for other purposes.S. 2673 · 107th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Regulate
2002-07-15	To address rules of professional responsibility for attorneys.S. 2673 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Regulate
2002-07-15	To require timely and public disclosure of transactions involving management and principal stockholders.S. 2673 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Regulate
2002-07-12	An original bill to improve quality and transparency in financial reporting and independent audits and accounting services for public companies, to create a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, to enhance the standard setting process for accounting practices, to strengthen the independence of firms that audit public companies, to increase corporate responsibility and the usefulness of corporate financial disclosure, to protect the objectivity and independence of securities analysts, to improve Securities and Exchange Commission resources and oversight, and for other purposes.S. 2673 · 107th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Regulate
2002-07-11	To modify attorney practices relating to clients, and for other purposes.S. 2673 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Regulate
2002-07-10	To deter fraud and abuse by corporate executives.S. 2673 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Regulate
2002-07-10	To increase criminal penalties relating to conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud, and certain ERISA violations, and for other purposes.S. 2673 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Regulate
2002-07-10	To provide for criminal prosecution of persons who alter or destroy evidence in certain Federal investigations or defraud investors of publicly traded securities, and for other purposes.S. 2673 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Regulate
2002-07-10	To provide for certification of financial reports by labor organizations and to improve quality and transparency in financial reporting and independent audits and accounting services for labor organizations.S. 2673 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Regulate
2002-06-18	A bill to ensure the continued financial capacity of insurers to provide coverage for risks from terrorism.S. 2600 · 107th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Regulate
2002-06-18	A bill to ensure the continued financial capacity of insurers to provide coverage for risks from terrorism.S. 2600 · 107th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2002-06-14	To provide for satisfaction of judgements from frozen assets of terrorists, terrorist organizations, and State sponsors of terrorism, and for other purposes.S. 2600 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2002-06-13	To restrict insurance rate increases for terrorism risks.S. 2600 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Deregulate
2002-06-13	To provide for procedures for civil actions, and for other purposes.S. 2600 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2001-07-17	A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, and for other purposes.H.R. 333 · 107th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Regulate
2001-07-17	To require the General Accounting Office to conduct a study of the effects of the Act on bankruptcy filings, and for other purposes.H.R. 333 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2001-07-17	In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 333 · 107th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2001-07-12	A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, and for other purposes.H.R. 333 · 107th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2001-03-29	No Statement of Purpose on File.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2001-03-15	An original bill to amend title 11, United States Code, and for other purposes.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Direction not readable
2001-03-15	To strike section 1310, relating to barring certain foreign judgments.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2001-03-15	To address the acceptable period of time between the filing of petitions for relief under chapter 12 of title 11, United States Code.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2001-03-15	To change the relevant time period in determining current monthly income.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2001-03-15	To correct the treatment of certain spousal income for purposes of means testing.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
2001-03-15	To protect the identities of minor children in bankruptcy proceedings.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Regulate
2001-03-15	To limit the value of certain real and personal property that a debtor may elect to exempt under State or local law, and for other purposes.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Deregulate
2001-03-14	An original bill to amend title 11, United States Code, and for other purposes.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Regulate
2001-03-14	To disallow certain claims and prohibit coercive debt collection practices.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Deregulate
2001-03-14	To provide a complete substitute.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2001-03-14	To provide for the nondischargeability of debts arising from the exchange of electric energy.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Deregulate
2001-03-13	To amend the Truth in Lending Act with respect to extensions of credit to consumers under the age of 21.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Deregulate
2001-03-13	To make an amendment with respect to the preservation of claims and defenses upon the sale or transfer of a predatory loan.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Deregulate
2001-03-13	To establish a procedure to safeguard the surpluses of the Social Security and Medicare hospital insurance trust funds.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2001-03-13	To establish an off-budget lockbox to strengthen Social Security and Medicare.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Direction not readable
2001-03-13	To remove the dollar limitation on retirement savings protected in bankruptcy.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2001-03-13	To make an amendment with respect to extensions of credit to underage consumers.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Deregulate
2001-03-08	To strike certain provisions relating to small businesses, and for other purposes,S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2001-03-08	To make an amendment with respect to predatory lending practices, and for other purposes.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Deregulate
2001-03-07	To provide small business creditors priority over larger businesses relating to distribution of the bankruptcy estate.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Deregulate
2001-03-07	To create an exemption for certain debtors that can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the court that the reason for the filing was a result of debts incurred through medical expenses.S. 420 · 107th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Regulate
2000-09-14	To direct the Securities and Exchange Commission to require corporations to disclose foreign investment-related information in 10-K reports.H.R. 4444 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2000-02-02	A bill to amend title 11 of the United States Code, and for other purposes.H.R. 833 · 106th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-02-02	To provide for the nondischargeability of debts arising from firearm-related debts, and for other purposes.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2000-02-02	To provide for an exception to a limitation on an automatic stay under section 362(b) of title 11, United States Code, relating to evictions and similar proceedings to provide for the payment of rent that becomes due after the petition of a debtor is filed, and for other purposes.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
2000-02-02	To ensure that debts incurred as a result of clinic violence are nondischargeable.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Regulate
2000-02-01	To make an amendment with respect to the disallowance of certain claims and to prohibit certain coercive debt collection practices.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Deregulate
1999-11-17	To discourage indiscriminate extensions of credit and resulting consumer insolvency, and for other purposes.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Regulate
1999-11-17	To make improvements in the bill.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-11-17	To impose a moratorium on large agribusiness mergers and to establish a commission to review large agriculture mergers, concentratoin, and market power.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
1999-11-10	To provide for greater protection of children and for other purposes.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
1999-11-10	To limit the value of certain real or personal property a debtor may elect to exempt under State or local law.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Regulate
1999-11-10	To allow States to opt-out of any homestead exemption cap.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Direction not readable
1999-11-10	Relating to methamphetamine and other controlled substances.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-11-09	To amend the Truth in Lending Act with respect to extensions of credit to consumers under the age of 21.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Deregulate
1999-11-09	To make an amendment with respect to allowance of claims or interests and predatory lending practices.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Deregulate
1999-11-09	To increase the Federal minimum wage and protect small business.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-11-09	To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to increase the Federal minimum wage.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-11-08	To amend title 11, United States Code, to provide for health care and employee benefits, and for other purposes.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-11-04	An Act to enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers, and for other purposes.S. 900 · 106th Congress · On the Conference Report	Yea	Deregulate
1999-09-21	A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, and for other purposes.S. 625 · 106th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-05-06	An Act to enhance competition in the financial services industry by providing a prudential framework for the affiliation of banks, securities firms, and other financial service providers, and for other purposes.S. 900 · 106th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Deregulate
1999-05-06	To authorize subsidiaries of national banks to engage in certain financial activities, to protect the safety and soundness of any insured bank that has a financial subsidiary, and to provide for the functional regulation of financial subsidiaries.S. 900 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
1999-05-06	To make an amendment with respect to the Federal deposit insurance funds and unitary savings and loan holding companies.S. 900 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable
1999-05-06	To strike a provision relating to a 3-year extension for BIF-member FICO assessments, to provide for financial information privacy protection, and to provide for the establishment of a consumer grievance process by the Federal banking agencies.S. 900 · 106th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Regulate
1999-05-05	To make amendments relating to the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977, and for other purposes.S. 900 · 106th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Yea	Direction not readable

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Regulate / Deregulate axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.