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Senate Roll Call 553, 107th Congress · July 12, 2002

An original bill to improve quality and transparency in financial reporting and independent audits and accounting services for public companies, to create a Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, to enhance the standard setting process for accounting practices, to strengthen the independence of firms that audit public companies, to increase corporate responsibility and the usefulness of corporate financial disclosure, to protect the objectivity and independence of securities analysts, to improve Securities and Exchange Commission resources and oversight, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Cloture Motion

91 yea · 2 nayCloture Motion Agreed to7 not voting or present
Democrat46 yea · 1 nay
Republican43 yea · 1 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 2673 ↗

Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act of 2002

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(0.95): Cloture advances major accounting and corporate regulatory legislation.

    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 (91)

Nay (2)

Not voting or present (7)

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.