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House · 114th Congress · Session 1 · Roll 628

House vote house-114-1-628

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

Whether the House should pass this bill under suspension of the rules

Official question: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

Date: 11/16/2015

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 11/16/2015
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 1
Roll number
628
Record identifier
house-114-1-628
This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass Honor America’s Guard-Reserve Retirees Act 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 met
Computed as ≥ 272 Yea out of 407 voting (2/3 of those voting).

Vote breakdown

Total recorded votes: 433
Not Voting list
26 members
Mark E. Amodei
Republican · NV-2
Vote: Not Voting
Emanuel Cleaver
Democratic · MO-5
Vote: Not Voting
Peter DeFazio
Democrat · OR-4
Vote: Not Voting
Anna Eshoo
Democrat · CA-18
Vote: Not Voting
Chaka Fattah
Democrat · PA-2
Vote: Not Voting
Luis Gutiérrez
Democrat · IL-4
Vote: Not Voting
Rubén Hinojosa
Democrat · TX-15
Vote: Not Voting
Richard Hudson
Republican · NC-9
Vote: Not Voting
Randy Hultgren
Republican · IL-14
Vote: Not Voting
Steve King
Republican · IA-4
Vote: Not Voting
Brenda Lawrence
Democrat · MI-14
Vote: Not Voting
Ted Lieu
Democratic · CA-36
Vote: Not Voting
Nita Lowey
Democrat · NY-17
Vote: Not Voting
Kenny Marchant
Republican · TX-24
Vote: Not Voting
James P. McGovern
Democratic · MA-2
Vote: Not Voting
Cedric Richmond
Democrat · LA-2
Vote: Not Voting
Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · CA-48
Vote: Not Voting
C. Ruppersberger
Democrat · MD-2
Vote: Not Voting
Bobby Rush
Democrat · IL-1
Vote: Not Voting
Loretta Sanchez
Democrat · CA-46
Vote: Not Voting
Janice D. Schakowsky
Democratic · IL-9
Vote: Not Voting
David Scott
Democratic · GA-13
Vote: Not Voting
Mark Takai
Democrat · HI-1
Vote: Not Voting
Dina Titus
Democratic · NV-1
Vote: Not Voting
Ann Wagner
Republican · MO-2
Vote: Not Voting
Ed Whitfield
Republican · KY-1
Vote: Not Voting

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Last updated: 11/16/2015Roll call: house-114-1-628