Here are some of the amendments rejected by the House Judiciary Committee at yesterday’s markup of S.256:

- An amendment by John Conyers (D-MI) protecting military personnel from predatory payday lenders;
- An amendment by Mel Watt (D-NC) exempting tuition costs from the expense calculation in the means test;
- An amendment by Adam Schiff (D-CA) protecting people whose bankruptcy is due to identity theft;
- An amendment by Howard Berman (D-CA) protecting bankruptcy filers who file due to medical crises;
- An amendment by Jerry Nadler (D-NY) which would make debts arising from civil rights violations non-dischargable in bankruptcy.

The House Republicans – just like their Senate counterparts – have no interest in protecting service members, families with children, the infirm or victims of crime. Who do they want to protect? Credit card companies and civil rights violators.

This is all on the record, folks. When these people run for reelection in your district in 2006, make sure your neighbors know about it. Write letters to the editor of the local paper. Post about it on your blog. Get the word out and make the Republicans publicly defend their votes. They won’t be able to. And hopefully they won’t win.