Senate Roll Call 491, 103rd Congress · April 21, 1994
A bill to improve the administration of the bankruptcy system, address certain commercial issues and consumer issues in bankruptcy, and establish a commission to study and make recommendations on problems with the bankruptcy system, and for other purposes. — (SENATE PASSED S. 540, TO IMPROVE THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE BANKRUPTCY SYSTEM, ADDRESS CERTAIN COMMERCIAL ISSUES AND CONSUMER ISSUES IN BANKRUPTCY, AND ESTABLISH A COMMISSION TO STUDY AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ON PROBLEMS WITH THE BANKRUPTCY SYSTEM.)
Question before the chamber: On Passage of the Bill
Solid = yea, faded = nay.
The measure
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 “Regulate”
model(0.85): Passing comprehensive bankruptcy legislation increases regulatory oversight of the bankruptcy system.
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 (94)
- Daniel K. Akaka
- Max Baucus
- Robert F. Bennett
- Joseph R. Biden Jr.
- Jeff Bingaman
- Christopher S. Bond
- Barbara Boxer
- William Warren Bradley
- John B. Breaux
- George Hanks Brown
- Richard H. Bryan
- Dale Bumpers
- Conrad Burns
- Robert C. Byrd
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell
- John Hubbard Chafee
- Daniel Coats
- Thad Cochran
- William Sebastian Cohen
- Kent Conrad
- Paul D. Coverdell
- Larry E. Craig
- Alfonse Marcello D’Amato
- John Claggett Danforth
- Thomas A. Daschle
- Dennis Webster DeConcini
- Christopher J. Dodd
- Robert Joseph Dole
- Pete V. Domenici
- Byron L. Dorgan
- David Ferdinand Durenberger
- J. James Exon
- Duncan McLauchlin Faircloth
- Russell D. Feingold
- Dianne Feinstein
- Wendell Hampton Ford
- John Herschel Glenn Jr.
- T. Slade Gorton
- Bob Graham
- Phil Gramm
- Chuck Grassley
- Judd A. Gregg
- Tom Harkin
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Mark Odom Hatfield
- Howell Thomas Heflin
- Jesse Helms
- Ernest F. Hollings
- Kay Bailey Hutchison
- John Bennett Johnston Jr.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum
- Dirk Kempthorne
- Edward M. Kennedy
- J. Robert Kerrey
- John F. Kerry
- Herb Kohl
- Frank R. Lautenberg
- Patrick J. Leahy
- Carl Levin
- Joseph I. Lieberman
- Trent Lott
- Richard G. Lugar
- Connie Mack III
- Harlan Mathews
- John McCain
- Mitch McConnell
- Howard Morton Metzenbaum
- Barbara A. Mikulski
- George John Mitchell
- Carol Moseley Braun
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Frank H. Murkowski
- Patty Murray
- Don Nickles
- Samuel Augustus Nunn
- Robert William Packwood
- Claiborne de Borda Pell
- Larry Lee Pressler
- David Hampton Pryor
- Harry Reid
- Charles S. Robb
- John D. Rockefeller, IV
- William V. Roth Jr.
- Paul S. Sarbanes
- James Ralph Sasser
- Paul Martin Simon
- Robert Smith
- Arlen Specter
- Ted F. Stevens
- J. Strom Thurmond
- Malcolm Wallop
- John W. Warner
- Paul David Wellstone
- Harris Wofford
Nay (0)
None
Not voting or present (6)
- David Lyle BorenDid not vote
- Daniel K. InouyeDid not vote
- James M. JeffordsDid not vote
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr.Did not vote
- Richard C. ShelbyDid not vote
- Alan Kooi SimpsonDid not vote
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