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Senate Roll Call 490, 103rd Congress · April 20, 1994

To amend section 109 of title 11, United States Code, to preclude a person from being a debtor under chapter 13 of that title if the person has previously been such a debtor within 3 years. — (SENATE TABLED THE REID/BROWN AMEMNDMENT NO. 1637, TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OF FILINGS A DEBTOR MAY FILE UNDER CHAPTER 13 TO ONE BANKRUPTCY FILING EVERY THREE YEARS.)

Question before the chamber: On the Motion to Table

60 yea · 34 nayMotion to Table Agreed to6 not voting or present
Democrat31 yea · 19 nay
Republican28 yea · 14 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 540 ↗

Bankruptcy Amendments Act of 1994

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 “Deregulate”

    model(0.85): Tabling an amendment that restricted chapter 13 filings prevents stricter bankruptcy regulation.

    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 (60)

Nay (34)

Not voting or present (6)

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