Banks buy Senate votes on bankruptcy

[funflower]

This full piece contains info about donations to various campaigns (including John Kerry's) from commercial banks.

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Why would 18 Senators, including co-sponsors of the original measure, vote for a tougher pro-consumer measure in 1991, and then vote against a weaker measure in 2005? Could it be that the more than $2 million these Senators took from the credit card/banking industry in the interim made them change their mind?
We offer the following list of those senators in case our readers wish to get an answer for themselves:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/bankruptcy/archives/2005/03/index.php

[billkurtmeyer]

1. Anyone surprised - my own senator Kohl is bought and paid for!

I will never vote for him again, I won't vote for the Repub, I simply won't vote. I will not tolerate Republican lite!