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House Roll Call 847, 105th Congress · June 10, 1998

H.R.3150 BY GEKAS (R-PA) -- BANKRUPTCY REFORM ACT OF 1998 (HOUSE REJECTED THE NADLER AMENDMENT THAT SOUGHT TO MODIFY THE SMALL BUSINESS SUBTITLE; RESTORE THE RIGHT TO COUNT DEBT AS DISPOSABLE INCOME; STRIKE PAPERWORK AND BUREAUCRATIC BURDENS AND RIGID DEADLINES WHICH ARE NOT OTHERWISE IMPOSED ON LARGER BUSINESSES; AND STRIKE PROVISIONS WHICH ALLOW A CREDITOR TO VIOLATE THE AUTOMATIC STAY; PROHIBIT A SMALL BUSINESS FROM FILING A NEW PETITION FOR TWO YEARS AFTER A CASE WAS DISMISSED; AND REQUIRE A SUCCESSOR ENTITY TO BRING FORWARD A PLAN CAPABLE OF CONFIRMATION IN ORDER TO FILE THE CASE. .)

Question before the chamber: On Agreeing to the Amendment

136 yea · 290 nayFailed7 not voting or present
Democrat130 yea · 67 nay
Republican5 yea · 223 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 3150 ↗

Consumer Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1998

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): Strikes provisions allowing creditors to violate automatic stays, imposing higher regulatory restrictions on creditors.

    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 (136)

Nay (290)

Not voting or present (7)

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