Mel Martinez on Financial Regulation

RepublicanFL

Financial Regulation27 votes · 78.5/100 consistent

RegulateDeregulate

40 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Financial Regulation. 27 of them counted toward the score above: 6 toward “Regulate” and 21 toward “Deregulate”.

The other 13 did not count: 13 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 0 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
2009-05-19	A bill to amend the Truth in Lending Act to establish fair and transparent practices relating to the extension of credit under an open end consumer credit plan, and for other purposes.H.R. 627 · 111th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Regulate
2009-05-19	In the nature of a substitute.H.R. 627 · 111th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-05-13	To enhance public knowledge regarding the national debt by requiring the publication of the facts about the national debt on IRS instructions, Federal websites, and in new legislation.H.R. 627 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-05-13	To establish a national consumer credit usury rate.H.R. 627 · 111th Congress · On the Motion	Nay	Deregulate
2009-05-13	To specify acceptable forms of identification for the opening of credit card accounts.H.R. 627 · 111th Congress · On the Amendment	Nay	Deregulate
2009-05-12	To protect innocent Americans from violent crime in national parks and refuges.H.R. 627 · 111th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Direction not readable
2009-01-15	A joint resolution relating to the disapproval of obligations under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.S.J.Res. 5 · 111th Congress · On the Joint Resolution	Yea	Direction not readable
2008-07-25	A bill to amend the Commodity Exchange Act, to prevent excessive price speculation with respect to energy commodities, and for other purposes.S. 3268 · 110th Congress · On the Cloture Motion	Nay	Deregulate
2008-07-22	A bill to amend the Commodity Exchange Act, to prevent excessive price speculation with respect to energy commodities, and for other purposes.S. 3268 · 110th Congress · On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed	Yea	Regulate
2005-03-10	A bill to amend title 11 of the United States Code, and for other purposes.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Yea	Direction not readable
2005-03-10	To deter corporate fraud and prevent the abuse of State self-settled trust law.S. 256 · 109th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Regulate
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	Yea	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

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.