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Senate Roll Call 16, 107th Congress · March 7, 2001

To create an exemption for certain debtors that can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the court that the reason for the filing was a result of debts incurred through medical expenses.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

34 yea · 65 nayAmendment Rejected1 not voting or present
Democrat33 yea · 17 nay
Republican0 yea · 47 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 420 ↗

Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2001

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(0.80): Creating a bankruptcy exemption for medical debt eases legal restrictions on debtors.

    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 (34)

Nay (65)

Not voting or present (1)

Vote records come from Voteview (voteview.com); bill titles and policy areas from the congress.gov API. See methodology for how the record was built.