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House Roll Call 998, 94th Congress · July 19, 1976

TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS H.R. 13720, TO AMEND THE CONSUMER CREDIT PROTECTION ACT SO AS TO PROHIBIT ABUSIVE PRACTICES BY DEBT COLLECTORS.

201 yea · 175 nay28 not voting or present
Democrat168 yea · 107 nay
Republican48 yea · 78 nay
Independent1 yea · 0 nay
Other2 yea · 0 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 13720

Debt Collection Practices Act

Policy area: Credit — 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): Prohibiting abusive debt collection practices increases regulation on financial entities.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Credit

    Axis: Regulate ← → Deregulate

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (219)

Nay (185)

Not voting or present (28)

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