Who was on the Senate Banking committee in 2005?I'm researching senate bill S. 190 [109th]: Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s109-190 This legislation was introduced by Sen. Charles Hagel [R-NE] and cosponsored by Sen. Elizabeth Dole [R-NC], Sen. John McCain [R-AZ] and Sen. John Sununu... |
Members of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs,
109th Congress Democrats:
• Paul S. Sarbanes (Md.), Ranking Member
• Christopher Dodd (Conn.)
• Tim Johnson (S.D.)
• Jack Reed (R.I.)
• Chuck Schumer (N.Y.)
• Evan Bayh (Ind.)
• Thomas R. Carper (Del.)
• Debbie Stabenow (Mich.)
• Robert Menendez (N.J.)
Republicans:
• Richard Shelby (Ala.), Chairman
• Robert Bennett (Utah)
• Wayne Allard (Colo.)
• Mike Enzi (Wyo.)
• Chuck Hagel (Neb.)
• Rick Santorum (Pa.)
• Jim Bunning (Ky.)
• Mike Crapo (Idaho)
• John E. Sununu (N.H.)
• Elizabeth Dole (N.C.)
• Mel Martinez (Fla.)
You would be WRONG because Congress was in the control of the REPUBLICAN party from Jan 1995- Jan 2007 this means that the MAJORITY on any committee will be from the party in the majority in the Senate- Republicans
Members- Republican total-11
Richard Shelby (Ala.), Chairman
Robert Bennett (Utah)
Wayne Allard (Colo.)
Mike Enzi (Wyo.)
Chuck Hagel (Neb.)
Rick Santorum (Pa.)
Jim Bunning (Ky.)
Mike Crapo (Idaho)
John E. Sununu (N.H.)
Elizabeth Dole (N.C.)
Mel Martinez (FL)
Members Democrat total-9
Paul S. Sarbanes (Md.), Ranking Member
Christopher Dodd (Conn.)
Tim Johnson (S.D.)
Jack Reed (R.I.)
Chuck Schumer (N.Y.)
Evan Bayh (Ind.)
Thomas R. Carper (Del.)
Debbie Stabenow (Mich.)
Robert Menendez (N.J.)
While doing research, read the bills. Both bills in their wording would have made the problem worse because they would not have strengthened regulations, they would have weakened if not removed them all together
Edited to add: finally found them hope this helps you. even if it went along party lines, the republicans had the majority
the bill is categorized as "dying in committee" . It did not initially. It was shelved in favor of an energy bill and then when the Republicans lost control of the Congress, it wafted away.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?...
Bear this in mind, while McCain jumped on the band wagon, a conservative think tank The American Enterprise Institute
stated that passage of these bills would have been disasterous,
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.22...
heck even Dubya said so ( surprise, surprise, surprise)
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index....
You're incorrect as well. Yes he GOP had a majority, but it was by a very slim margin. S.190 would have needed at least some Democratic support to pass, this is the reason it was "shelved", because the Democrats were against it by party line vote in committee and the GOP didn't have any votes from the Democrats on the floor, even if near all GOP voted on the bill it wouldn't have been enough to pass it.
Also The American Enterprise Institute didn't state S.190 would have been disastrous
