[Doe Eyes]

It should be noted that Clinton signed the 1999 bill that allowed for bank deregulation, resulting in the subprime mess.

You are talking about the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act.

53 Republican Senators (including Senator McCain) and one Democrat voted to approved the Act.

44 Democrats and no Republicans voted against the Act.

YEAs ---54
Abraham (R-MI) Allard (R-CO) Ashcroft (R-MO) Bennett (R-UT) Bond (R-MO) Brownback (R-KS) Bunning (R-KY) Burns (R-MT) Campbell (R-CO) Chafee, J. (R-RI) Cochran (R-MS) Collins (R-ME) Coverdell (R-GA) Craig (R-ID) Crapo (R-ID) DeWine (R-OH) Domenici (R-NM) Enzi (R-WY)	Frist (R-TN) Gorton (R-WA) Gramm (R-TX) Grams (R-MN) Grassley (R-IA) Gregg (R-NH) Hagel (R-NE) Hatch (R-UT) Helms (R-NC) Hollings (D-SC) Hutchinson (R-AR) Hutchison (R-TX) Jeffords (R-VT) Kyl (R-AZ) Lott (R-MS) Lugar (R-IN) Mack (R-FL) McCain (R-AZ)	McConnell (R-KY) Murkowski (R-AK) Nickles (R-OK) Roberts (R-KS) Roth (R-DE) Santorum (R-PA) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Smith (R-NH) Smith (R-OR) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (R-PA) Stevens (R-AK) Thomas (R-WY) Thompson (R-TN) Thurmond (R-SC) Voinovich (R-OH) Warner (R-VA)

NAYs ---44
Akaka (D-HI) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Biden (D-DE) Bingaman (D-NM) Boxer (D-CA) Breaux (D-LA) Bryan (D-NV) Byrd (D-WV) Cleland (D-GA) Conrad (D-ND) Daschle (D-SD) Dodd (D-CT) Dorgan (D-ND) Durbin (D-IL)	Edwards (D-NC) Feingold (D-WI) Feinstein (D-CA) Graham (D-FL) Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Johnson (D-SD) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerrey (D-NE) Kerry (D-MA) Kohl (D-WI) Landrieu (D-LA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI)	Lieberman (D-CT) Lincoln (D-AR) Mikulski (D-MD) Moynihan (D-NY) Murray (D-WA) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Robb (D-VA) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sarbanes (D-MD) Schumer (D-NY) Torricelli (D-NJ) Wellstone (D-MN) Wyden (D-OR)

Present - 1
Fitzgerald (R-IL)

Not Voting - 1
Inhofe (R-OK)

[VRWC For Truth]

Another illustration that there is a one party cartel in DC.

[org.whodat]

Telling the truth will get you in hot water with some here, you see the issue is more important than the facts.

[flattorney]

Exactly and this is another Bush Administration disaster.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Thanks for the post. I didn’t realize that this was uniquely a Republican made catastrophe. I assumed some Democrats voted to repeal Glass-Stegall. Thanks for the vote tally that this is SOLELY a Republican made mess. This doesn’t make me very proud to be a Republican. Indeed, the Democrats have more skeletons in their closet as far as I am concerned, but actions like this really give credibility to the leftist claims that Republicans only help the wealthy fat cats and don’t give a crap about regular people.

[DemonDeac]

Ouch.

[Afronaut]

Conservatives can rightly argue that had Congressional Democrats not blocked the various initiatives of the Bush administration to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac for the past five years, we would not be sitting at the precipice like we are today.

Hank Paulson's Fannie Gamble

http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB121754567926302543.html