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Senate Roll Call 13, 109th Congress · March 1, 2005

To protect servicemembers and veterans from means testing in bankruptcy, to disallow certain claims by lenders charging usurious interest rates to servicemembers, and to allow servicemembers to exempt property based on the law of the State of their premilitary residence.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

38 yea · 58 nayAmendment Rejected4 not voting or present
Democrat36 yea · 6 nay
Republican0 yea · 52 nay
Independent2 yea · 0 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.

  • Financial RegulationA yea counts toward “Regulate”

    model(0.95): Restricting usurious lenders and protecting debtors in bankruptcy increases regulation of financial institutions.

    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 (38)

Nay (58)

Not voting or present (4)

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.