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House Roll Call 867, 100th Congress · October 4, 1988

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS HR 5347, MUNICIPAL BANKRUPTCY, TO AMEND THE BANKRUPTCY LAWS TO SAFEGUARD MUNICIPAL BONDHOLDERS IN CASE THE MUNICIPALITY GOES BANKRUPT. MOTION PASSED; TWO-THIRDS OF THOSE PRESENT VOTING IN FAVOR.

413 yea · 1 nay15 not voting or present
Democrat235 yea · 1 nay
Republican177 yea · 0 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5347

Intellectual Property Antitrust Protection Act of 1988

Policy area: Finance and Financial Sector — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Financial RegulationA yea counts toward “Regulate”

    model(0.75): Adds regulatory protections for municipal bondholders in bankruptcy proceedings.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Finance and Financial Sector

    Axis: Regulate ← → Deregulate

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (415)

Nay (1)

Not voting or present (15)

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