Comments on: 1999 Gramm Deregulation Act: McCain Yes, Biden No!

By: james

james — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:28:33 +0000

By the way the use of wikipedia as a source is NEVER a good way to prove anything political except who has been logging into wikipedia lately. That’s the net equivalent of starting a research paper with “Webster’s dictionary defines… as…”

By: james

james — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:25:19 +0000

Once again, as admin stated. THE BILL PASSED — IN ITS ORIGINAL FORM. You are refering to a procedural (sp?) vote that occurred later. Here’s a link:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s1999-105&page-command=print

-Notice the date of the bill (May 6)

-Notice what it says right underneath that date (THIS BILL PASSED).

DEAL WITH IT.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:29:38 +0000

as for who did not vote in that 90-8 vote… John McCain. Funny who is the “deregulator” now Biden… but to be honest to blame it on this bill is somewhat of a stretch.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:38:50 +0000

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm-Leach-Bliley_Act

Yes at first he voted no, but after some revisions and concessions to democrats, as well as to make it veto proof, it was accepted bipartisan. That was the final version of the bill and Biden voted yes. Without reworking and other concessions, it would not have survived a veto from President Clinton. That is why they had the 90-8 vote. You had to resolve differences in House and Senate in November. Once resolved, which Biden voted yes for, it was sent to Clinton.

By: admin

admin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:40:57 +0000

Again, you are referring to the vote on the conference report and not the vote on the actual bill, which took place in May of 1999 and not november of 1999.

By: jr565

jr565 — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 04:18:15 +0000

actually biden did vote yes:

http://thepage.time.com/mccain-camp-veep-debate-release-the-1999-deregulation-that-joe-biden-supported/

By: admin

admin — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:55:35 +0000

He did vote against it. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=s1999-105

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=1&vote=00105

What you were reading was the vote on the conference report, which took place 6 months after the bill had already passed in the senate, and just over a week before it was signed into law. The bill was not passed 90-8; it was passed 54-44, almost strictly down party lines (The lone Democrat to vote for the bill was Ernest Hollings of South Carolina).

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 03:42:42 +0000

Either the author of this is downright dishonest or didn’t do his/her homework. Biden voted no on an earlier version of the bill but voted yes on the final version, which Democrat Bill Clinton signed into law. Rmartin’s link to the senate web site confirms this as does a fact check from Iowa tv station KCRG.

http://www.kcrg.com/explorepolitics/?feed=bim&id=30188584

By: rmartin

rmartin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:01:49 +0000

What are your sources for this vote? According to the US Senate’s own website Biden did vote yes on deregulation on the Gramm-Leach-Bliley bill

Here you can see a vote by Senator. It passed 90-8

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=106&session=1&vote=00354