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House Roll Call 727, 95th Congress · February 1, 1978

TO AMEND H.R. 8200 BY EXPANDING THE JURISDICTION OF BANKRUPTCY COURTS, PROVIDING FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF BANKRUPTCY JUDGES BY THE COURTS OF APPEALS, LENGTHENING THE TERM OF JUDGES TO FIFTEEN YEARS, AND PLACING THE U.S. TRUSTEES UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE JUDICIAL CONFERENCE. THIS AMENDMENT WAS PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED BY THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE ON OCT. 28, 1977 (SEE RC 712, SESSION 1).

146 yea · 262 nay11 not voting or present
Democrat85 yea · 192 nay
Republican66 yea · 75 nay
Independent0 yea · 1 nay
Other1 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 (0.90) Amending bankruptcy court jurisdiction and judicial appointments is judicial organization, not financial 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 (152)

Nay (269)

Not voting or present (11)

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