Foreclosure Deferment Bill Passes Minnesota House and Senate

Overshadowed by the budget deal was the fact that the Subprime Borrower Relief Act of 2008 passed the Minnesota House and Senate. Hats off to Representative Davnie and Senator Anderson. The odds were steep but they got it done.

(click here for the text of the bill that passed)

Here's the summary of who voted for in House (81 for, 53 against):

Those who voted in the affirmative were:
Anzelc
Atkins
Benson
Bigham
Bly
Brown
Brynaert
Bunn
Carlson
Clark
Davnie
Dill
Dittrich
Dominguez
Doty
Faust
Fritz
Gardner
Greiling
Hansen
Hausman
Haws
Hilstrom
Hilty
Hornstein
Hortman
Howes
Huntley
Jaros
Johnson
Kahn
Kalin
Kelliher
Knuth
Kranz
Laine
Lenczewski
Lesch
Liebling
Lieder
Lillie
Loeffler
Madore
Mahoney
Mariani
Marquart
Masin
Moe
Morgan
Morrow
Mullery
Murphy, E.
Murphy, M.
Nelson
Norton
Ozment
Paymar
Pelowski
Peterson, A.
Peterson, S.
Poppe
Rukavina
Ruud
Sailer
Scalze
Sertich
Simon
Slawik
Slocum
Smith
Swails
Thao
Thissen
Tillberry
Tingelstad
Tschumper
Wagenius
Walker
Ward
Welti
Westrom

Here's who voted no in the House, failing to provide homeowners relief, including Congressional Candidate Erik Paulson:

Abeler
Anderson, B.
Anderson, S.
Beard
Berns
Brod
Buesgens
Cornish
Dean
DeLaForest
Demmer
Dettmer
Drazkowski
Eastlund
Eken
Emmer
Erhardt
Erickson
Finstad
Garofalo
Gottwalt
Gunther
Hackbarth
Hamilton
Heidgerken
Holberg
Hoppe
Hosch
Juhnke
Koenen
Kohls
Lanning
Magnus
McFarlane
McNamara
Nornes
Olin
Olson
Otremba
Paulsen
Peppin
Peterson, N.
Ruth
Seifert
Severson
Shimanski
Simpson
Solberg
Urdahl
Wardlow
Winkler
Wollschlager
Zellers

Here's who voted for in the Senate (34 for, 33 against--by just one vote)

For:
Anderson
Bakk
Berglin
Bonoff
Carlson
Chaudhary
Clark
Cohen
Dahle
Dibble
Doll
Erickson Ropes
Foley
Higgins
Langseth
Larson
Latz
Lourey
Lynch
Marty
Olseen
Olson, M.
Pappas
Pogemiller
Rest
Rummel
Saltzman
Saxhaug
Scheid
Sheran
Sieben
Tomassoni
Vickerman
Wiger

Against:

Betzold
Day
Dille
Fischbach
Frederickson
Gerlach
Gimse
Hann
Ingebrigtsen
Johnson
Jungbauer
Koch
Koering
Kubly
Limmer
Metzen
Michel
Moua
Murphy
Olson, G.
Ortman
Pariseau
Prettner Solon
Robling
Rosen
Senjem
Skoe
Skogen
Sparks
Stumpf
Torres Ray
Vandeveer
Wergin