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Senate Roll Call 12, 109th Congress · March 1, 2005

To clarify the safe harbor with respect to debtors who have serious medical conditions or who have been called or ordered to active duty in the Armed Forces and low income veterans.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

63 yea · 32 nayAmendment Agreed to5 not voting or present
Democrat12 yea · 30 nay
Republican51 yea · 0 nay
Independent0 yea · 2 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

S. 256 ↗

Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005

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.

  • Defense & War PowersDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.95) Bankruptcy safe harbor protections for active duty servicemembers do not involve defense or war powers policy.

    Tagged by: keyword:armed forces

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

  • Financial RegulationA yea counts toward “Regulate”

    model(0.90): Providing bankruptcy safe harbor protections increases financial regulation 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 (63)

Nay (32)

Not voting or present (5)

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