Votes on Bankruptcy bill & Amendments

[TayTay]

The Bankruptcy bill in the Senate.

S. 256 On the Amendment S.Amdt. 23 Agreed to
Sessions Amdt. No. 23;
To clarify the safe harbor with respect to debtors who have serious medical conditions or who have been called or ordered to active duty in the Armed Forces and low income veterans.
Kerry voted no.

On the Amendment S.Amdt. 16 Rejected
Durbin Amdt. No. 16, As Modified.;
To protect servicemembers and veterans from means testing in bankruptcy, to disallow certain claims by lenders charging usurious interest rates to servicemembers, and to allow servicemembers to exempt property based on the law of the State of their premilitary residence.
Kerry voted Yes.

Kerry is opposed to the Bankruptcy Bill

Just an update of actual Senate business.

[whometense]

1. Thanks, TayTay!

It's great being able to read this news here without having to go hunting.

And of course he opposes it. :-) I'd expect nothing less.

[TayTay]

2. Update

They are voting on the Feingold Amendment to the Bankruptcy Bill.
Kerry voted for the Ameendment.

Feingold wanted to put a floor on the to establish uniform Federal homestead floor for the elderly of $75.000.00 (Keep this from creditors in bankruptcy proceedings.)

Will go down to defeat. (Edit: It did 40-59)

I hope the Dems challengers in 2006 run on this. Rethugs hate the elderly, if they are poor.

[whometense]

3. Listening to Stephanie Miller this morning?

They were doing a game where they added the words "if you're rich" to the ends of sentences to make them true.

Example: The U.S. has the best health care system in the world - if you're rich.

The U.S. always takes good care of its seniors - if they're rich.

etc.

[TayTay]

4. No, I'm wonkish today

I'm actually listening to the Senate non-debate on a C-Span stream. This bill offends me to no end and I am intensely interested to see whcih Dems sell out their people on it.)

(TayTay pushes big thick eyeglasses back up on nose) but I'm not geeky. Really. BTW, I have those complete transcripts of those Committee Hearings from Late Feb, if anyone needs them. (Okay, I am a little geeky for reading transcripts, I admit it.)

[angrydemocrat]

5. Well I can tell you one of the sell outs

Joe Biden!

[TayTay]

6. Yup

and Max Baucus
Ben Nelson of NE

[politicasista]

7. And he thinks Hillary will win the nomination in 2008.

:shrug:

[TayTay]

8. Boy Teddy K is upset!

Poor bastard. Has to watch all that stuff he spent a lifetime working for go down to Rethug greed. I feel for my esteemed Senior Senator.

[TayTay]

9. Wow!

I hope Teddy doesn't explode.

BTW, did you notice, AD, how the Rethugs have flip-lopped. When the Defense of Marriage Act passed, it did so because it was too dangerous to leave such an important moral issue to the States.

When it comes to protecting families from medical debt, veterans from getting relief for debt, protecting a basic floor of $75,000 home exemption for senior citizens, and so forth, suddenly, we leave this up to the States. What a bunch of bastards.

So far, Rethugs have opposed all of these. Remember this in 2006.

[angrydemocrat]

10. Tell me about WOW!

He is one pissed off man. A couple times there I thought he was going to blow his top! BIGTIME!!

[elshiva]

11. Teddy K is being screwed over and he hates it!

Go, Teddy, go!

[TayTay]

12. Orrin Hatch

just called populists stupid. If you had a brain, then you would vote Rethug. (I think it's the mind-control drugs Hatch makes his Universities and Colleges use on their students. Clears up that nasty condition that causes free-thinking.)

[angrydemocrat]

13. I can't hardly stand to listen to Hatch

He is so damn full of shit it is unreal. I tell you the republicans have to keep the mouthwash companies in business because with as much shit as they spew out of their mouth everytime they open it is unreal! And if they didn't keep a bottle in their suit pocket at all times to take a swig after they speak they truly would smell like a major sewer system! :puke:

[TayTay]

14. Thank goodness for Obama

Takes the horrible taste of Hatch and Cronyn out of my ears. (Yes, mixed metaphors. But I never put the words 'taste of' and Rethug names in the same sentence. Not ever.)

[TayTay]

15. AD, a favor please

I am going to listen to the Jackie Robinson event soon. Can you update me tonight on the Senate debate on the bankruptcy bill?

Gracias, my friend.