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House Roll Call 655, 95th Congress · October 28, 1977

TO AMEND H.R. 8200 SO AS TO INCREASE THE JURISDICTION OF BANKRUPTCY COURTS, PROVIDE FOR TWELVE-YEAR APPOINTMENTS OF BANKRUPTCY JUDGES BY THE U.S. COURTS OF APPEAL, AND PLACE U.S. TRUSTEES UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE JUDICIAL CONFERENCE.

183 yea · 158 nay61 not voting or present
Democrat111 yea · 128 nay
Republican87 yea · 45 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other0 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 8200 ↗

A bill to establish a uniform law on the subject of bankruptcies.

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 RegulationDirection unreadable — not scored

    excluded:model-unclear (0.75) Court structure and administrative changes do not directly regulate or deregulate financial markets.

    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 (198)

Nay (175)

Not voting or present (61)

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