House · 114th Congress · Session 1 · Roll 556
House vote house-114-1-556
No related bill listed for this roll call.
What is this vote?Voting on a resolution
Official question: On Agreeing to the Resolution
Date: 10/21/2015
Sources
Provenance for this roll-call record.
Vote date: 10/21/2015
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 1
Roll number
556
Record identifier
house-114-1-556
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What this vote does
On Agreeing to the Resolution Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1937) to require the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to more efficiently develop domestic sources of the minerals and mineral materials of strategic and critical importance to US economic and national security and manufacturing competitiveness No bill link is listed for this roll call in the source feed. Recorded outcome: Passed.
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Result
Official result: Passed
Required threshold (best-effort)
Simple majority (of those voting)
Note: This is a best-effort interpretation based on the vote question text.
Threshold check (computed)
Appears not met
Computed using Yea vs Nay among those voting (Yea+Nay = 185).
Vote breakdown
Total recorded votes: 434
Not Voting list
5 members
James E. Clyburn
Democratic · SC-6
Vote: Not Voting
Trey Gowdy
Republican · SC-4
Vote: Not Voting
Bill Johnson
Republican · OH-6
Vote: Not Voting
Robin L. Kelly
Democratic · IL-2
Vote: Not Voting
Donald Payne
Democrat · NJ-10
Vote: Not Voting
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Last updated: 10/21/2015Roll call: house-114-1-556