This electronic AFL-CIO Voting Record will let you know where your lawmakers stand on such working family issues as strengthening Social Security and Medicare, freedom to join a union, workplace safety and more.
Foreclosure Relief/'Cramdown Provision' (S. 896)
During the debate on the Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) offered an amendment that would have allowed bankruptcy judges to modify home mortgages on terms that could allow thousands of homeowners facing foreclosure to keep their homes. Many mortgage lenders have been slow or failed to modify existing loans, despite many borrowers receiving loans based on false, misleading and predatory lending practices. The amendment failed April 30 by a vote of 45-51 (R: 0-39; D: 43-12; I: 2-0). Y=R, N=W
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| State |
Name |
Party |
Vote |
| AK |
Murkowski |
R |
(Nay )
|
| AK |
Begich |
D |
(Yea )
|
| AL |
Shelby |
R |
(Nay )
|
| AL |
Sessions, J. |
R |
|
| AR |
Pryor |
D |
(Nay )
|
| AR |
Lincoln |
D |
(Nay )
|
| AZ |
McCain |
R |
(Nay )
|
| AZ |
Kyl |
R |
(Nay )
|
| CA |
Feinstein |
D |
(Yea )
|
| CA |
Boxer |
D |
(Yea )
|
| CO |
Udall, Mark |
D |
(Yea )
|
| CO |
Salazar, |
D |
|
| CO |
Bennet |
D |
(Nay )
|
| CT |
Dodd |
D |
(Yea )
|
| CT |
Lieberman |
I |
(Yea )
|
| = |
Voted right way, in support of the organization-endorsed position |
| = |
Voted wrong way, in opposition to the organization-endorsed position |
| = |
Vote not counted |
