Voting Record
Complete voting history for Paul S. Sarbanes
Total Votes
1320
Yea Votes
909
69%
Nay Votes
387
29%
Bills Passed
660
50% success rate
Showing 50 of 1320 votes
To increase discretionary health and education funding by $2,000,000,000.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 173 to S.Con.Res. 18 (No short title on file)
To increase veterans medical care by $2.8 billion in 2006.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 149 to S.Con.Res. 18 (No short title on file)
To increase veterans medical care by $410,000,000 in fiscal year 2006.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 171 to S.Con.Res. 18 (No short title on file)
To fully reinstate the pay-as-you-go requirement.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 186 to S.Con.Res. 18 (No short title on file)
To strike section 201(a)(4) relative to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 168 to S.Con.Res. 18 (No short title on file)
To provide adequate funding of $1.4 billion in fiscal year 2006 to preserve a national intercity passenger rail system.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 158 to S.Con.Res. 18 (No short title on file)
To protect the American people from terrorist attacks by providing the necessary resources to our firefighters, police, EMS workers and other first-responders by restoring $1,626 billion in cuts to first-responder programs.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 147 to S.Con.Res. 18 (No short title on file)
To express the sense of the Senate that Congress should reject any Social Security plan that requires deep benefit cuts or a massive increase in debt.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 145 to S.Con.Res. 18 (No short title on file)
To express the sense of the Senate that failing to address the financial condition of Social Security will result in massive debt, deep benefit cuts and tax increases.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 150 to S.Con.Res. 18 (No short title on file)
To ensure that 75-year solvency has been restored to Social Security before Congress considers new deficit-financed legislation that would increase mandatory spending or cut taxes.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 144 to S.Con.Res. 18 (No short title on file)
To express the sense of the Senate regarding the urgent need for legislation to ensure the long-term viability of the Social Security program.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 152 to S.Con.Res. 18 (No short title on file)
To restore funding for education programs that are cut and reduce debt by closing corporate tax loopholes.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 143 to S.Con.Res. 18 (No short title on file)
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
On Passage of the Bill S. 256
Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006
On Passage of the Bill S. 250
To deter corporate fraud and prevent the abuse of State self-settled trust law.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 121 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To limit the exemption for asset protection trusts.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 129 to S.Amdt. 121 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To protect disabled veterans from means testing in bankruptcy under certain circumstances.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 112 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To modify the definition of disinterested person in the Bankruptcy Code.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 83 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To limit claims in bankruptcy by certain unsecured creditors.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 105 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To amend the definition of current monthly income.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 69 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To exempt debtors whose financial problems were caused by failure to receive alimony or child support, or both, from means testing.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 70 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To provide a maximum amount for a homestead exemption under State law.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 68 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To modify the bill to protect families, and for other purposes.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 67 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To provide for the potential disallowance of certain claims.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 62 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To increase the accrual period for the employee wage priority in bankruptcy.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 66 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To clarify that the means test does not apply to debtors below median income.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 110 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To strike certain small business related bankruptcy provisions in the bill.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 89 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005
On the Cloture Motion S. 256
To prohibit the discharge, in bankruptcy, of a debt resulting from the debtor's unlawful interference with the provision of lawful goods or services or damage to property used to provide lawful goods or services.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 47 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To promote job creation, family time, and small business preservation in the adjustment of the Federal minimum wage.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 128 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide for an increase in the Federal minimum wage.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 44 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To protect employees and retirees from corporate practices that deprive them of their earnings and retirement savings when a business files for bankruptcy.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 49 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To amend the wage priority provision and to amend the payment of insurance benefits to retirees.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 24 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To limit the exemption for asset protection trusts.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 42 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To discourage predatory lending practices.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 38 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To exempt debtors from means testing if their financial problems were caused by identity theft.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 37 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To limit the amount of interest that can be charged on any extension of credit to 30 percent.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 31 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To preserve existing bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill or disabled family members.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 32 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To provide protection for medical debt homeowners.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 29 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To exempt debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems from means testing.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 28 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To require enhanced disclosure to consumers regarding the consequences of making only minimum required payments in the repayment of credit card debt, and for other purposes.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 15 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
To provide a homestead floor for the elderly.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 17 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
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.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 16 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
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.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 23 to S. 256 (Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005)
Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2005
On Passage of the Bill S. 306
Michael Chertoff, of New Jersey, to be Secretary of Homeland Security, vice Thomas J. Ridge, resigned.
On the Nomination PN122
Class Action Fairness Act of 2005
On Passage of the Bill S. 5
To establish time limits for action by Federal district courts on motions to remand cases that have been removed to Federal court.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 12 to S. 5 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)
To clarify the application of State law in certain class actions, and for other purposes.
On the Amendment S.Amdt. 4 to S. 5 (Class Action Fairness Act of 2005)