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House Roll Call 564, 94th Congress · December 9, 1975

TO AGREE TO AN AMENDMENT TO H.R. 10624 IN THE NATURE OF A SUBSTITUTE. H.R. 10624 AMENDS CHAPTER 9 OF THE BANKRUPTCY ACT TO PROVIDE A WORKABLE PROCEDURE FOR THE ADJUSTMENT OF DEBTS OF POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS AND PUBLIC AGENCIES AND INSTRUMENTALITIES. THE BUTLER SUBSTITUTE PROVIDES TO ADD A NEW CHAPTER 16 TO THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, LIMITED TO CITIES WITH POPULATIONS EXCEEDING 1 MILLION PERSONS. THE BUTLER BILL IS ESSENTIALLY THE LEGISLATION PROPOSED BY THE ADMINISTRATION.

145 yea · 264 nay23 not voting or present
Democrat20 yea · 252 nay
Republican124 yea · 12 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 10624 ↗

An Act to amend chapter IX of the Bankruptcy Act to provide by voluntary reorganization procedures for the adjustment of the debts of municipalities.

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(0.75): Narrows the federal municipal bankruptcy framework to apply only to very large cities, limiting federal regulation.

    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 (145)

Nay (266)

Not voting or present (23)

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