"Voting "yes" were 39 Democrats, 34 Republicans and 1 independent.

Voting "no" were 9 Democrats, 15 Republicans and 1 independent."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081002/ap_on_go_co/senate_rollvote_financial_meltdown

This measure will send back to the house of representatives. Barely changed and still pushing 700 billion dollars.

Both Mccain and Obama voted positively for the bill.

There are provisions in the bill that are to protect the tax payer.

Here is the text of the http://www.docstoc.com/docs/1673145/Senate-Bailout-Bill

IMPORTANT SECTIONS

Section 109: forclosure mitigation efforts

• Working with taxpayer to modify home loans.

Section 110: Assistance to Homeowners.

• Assistance and definition of homeowners, servicers, etc as they pertain to other bills
  

Section 111: Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance

• "Any finicial institution that sells trouble assets to Secretary, is executive compensation requirements."
  
• The sale and purchase of trouble assets.
  

Section 112: Coordination with Foreign Authorities and Central Banks

• Federal Assistance to foreign banks, that have defaulted or other troubles.
  

Section 116: Oversight and Audits

• Oversight - provisions - TARP - this section is complicated
  

Section 118: Funding

• Where the money comes from - provision for secretary - This section is short, and refers to some chapter 31 title 31 United States Code
  

Section 120: Termination of Authority

• "Authority shall terminate on December 31 2009"

Section 122: Increase in Statutory Limit on the Public debt

• "Subsection (b) of section 3101 of title 31 United States Code, is amended by striking out the dollar limitation contained in such subsection and inserting
• "$11,315,000,000,000"" - Thats how much debt can be placed on the public
  

Section 124: HOPE for Homeowners Amendments

• National Houseing Act amended