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Senate Roll Call 561, 105th Congress · September 9, 1998

A bill to amend title 11, United States Code, to provide for consumer bankruptcy protection, and for other purposes. — (THREE-FIFTHS OF THOSE SENATORS DULY CHOSEN AND SWORN HAVING VOTED IN THE AFFIRMATIVE, SENATE AGREED TO CLOSE FURTHER DEBATE ON THE MOTION TO PROCEED TO CONSIDERATION OF S. 1301, TO AMEND TITLE 11, UNITED STATES CODE, TO PROVIDE FOR CONSUMER BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION. .)

Question before the chamber: On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed

99 yea · 1 nayCloture on the Motion to Proceed Agreed to
Democrat45 yea · 0 nay
Republican52 yea · 1 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 1301 ↗

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(0.75): Advancing consumer bankruptcy legislation imposes stricter regulatory standards on bankruptcy filings.

    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 (99)

Nay (1)

Not voting or present (0)

None

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