00-00-0000 SENATE PASSES BANKRUPT...
00-00-0000 SENATE PASSES BANKRUPTCY REFORM BILL WITH not many AMENDMENTS Measure May Face Further Opposition When Reconciled With House Version Mar 21 2001 (Card News/Phillips Publishing via COMTEX) -- When the U s Senate voted 83-15 in favor of bankruptcy reform legislation last Thursday, the industry came undivided very large step closer to closing what many card issuers diocese as a loophole that popularly allows debtors to walk away from obligations they can afford to repay. The ballot came two weeks to the day that the House of Representatives approved its own version of the bankruptcy
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