(March 11, 2005 -- 3:03 PM EDT)

The Bankruptcy Rolls have been updated to reflect the votes on the bankruptcy bill. We haven't moved Lieberman over to the Consumer Champs because of the inexplicable nature of his votes. At least "yea" votes like those of Reid and Bayh followed "nay" votes on cloture, so one could argue that these Senators, once they knew the die had been cast for the bill's passage, chose to appease big contributors after taking on the more important fight against cloture. This is reasonable cynicism. But voting with the credit card companies on cloture, and then, once the outcome was assured, turning around and voting against the industry's bill... that just seems crass.

-- Spencer Ackerman