Update: Senate Fails to Pass Helping Families Save Their Homes Act AKA Judicial Modification of Mortgages (Bankruptcy) Bill
May 3, 2009
On April 30, 2009, the full Senate took up the House-passed Housing bill (ÂHelping Families Save Their Homes ActÂ).
Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) offered a revised version of S. 61 as an amendment to the bill; the amendment needed 60 votes to pass.
The amendment failed on a vote of 45 for, 51 against.
All Republican Senators voted against the amendment.
The following Democrats voted against it:  Senators Tester and Baucus  Montana; Byrd  West Virginia; Specter  PA; Bennet  Colorado; Ben Nelson  Nebraska; Carper  Delaware; Dorgan  North Dakota; Landrieu — Louisiana; Lincoln and Pryor  Arkansas; and Johnson  South Dakota.
The above was excerpted from a National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys update.
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