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House · 114th Congress · Session 1 · Roll 583

House vote house-114-1-583

No related bill listed for this roll call.
What is this vote?

Whether the House should end debate and move to the next step

Official question: On Ordering the Previous Question

Date: 11/3/2015

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 11/3/2015
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 1
Roll number
583
Record identifier
house-114-1-583
This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Ordering the Previous Question Providing for consideration of the Senate amendments to H.R. 22, the Hire More Heroes Act of 2015; providing for proceedings during the period from November 6, 2015, through November 13, 2015; and providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules 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)
Two-thirds (of those voting)
Note: Some votes require 2/3 under chamber rules (e.g., suspension, overrides). The official record may apply special rules.
Threshold check (computed)
Appears not met
Computed as ≥ 280 Yea out of 419 voting (2/3 of those voting).

Vote breakdown

Total recorded votes: 433
Not Voting list
14 members
Robert Brady
Democrat · PA-1
Vote: Not Voting
John Conyers
Democrat · MI-13
Vote: Not Voting
Renee Ellmers
Republican · NC-2
Vote: Not Voting
Chaka Fattah
Democrat · PA-2
Vote: Not Voting
Louie Gohmert
Republican · TX-1
Vote: Not Voting
Sheila Jackson Lee
Democrat · TX-18
Vote: Not Voting
Walter Jones
Republican · NC-3
Vote: Not Voting
John B. Larson
Democratic · CT-1
Vote: Not Voting
Gregory W. Meeks
Democratic · NY-5
Vote: Not Voting
Cedric Richmond
Democrat · LA-2
Vote: Not Voting
Jackie Speier
Democrat · CA-14
Vote: Not Voting
Mark Takai
Democrat · HI-1
Vote: Not Voting
John Yarmuth
Democrat · KY-3
Vote: Not Voting
Kevin Yoder
Republican · KS-3
Vote: Not Voting

About this data

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Last updated: 11/3/2015Roll call: house-114-1-583