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House · 114th Congress · Session 1 · Roll 632

House vote house-114-1-632

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, as Amended

Date: 11/17/2015

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 11/17/2015
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 1
Roll number
632
Record identifier
house-114-1-632
This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended To provide funds to the Army Corps of Engineers to hire veterans and members of the Armed Forces to assist the Corps with curation and historic preservation activities, and for other purposes 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 ≥ 284 Yea out of 425 voting (2/3 of those voting).

Vote breakdown

Total recorded votes: 433
Not Voting list
8 members
Karen Bass
Democrat · CA-37
Vote: Not Voting
Peter DeFazio
Democrat · OR-4
Vote: Not Voting
Rubén Hinojosa
Democrat · TX-15
Vote: Not Voting
Donald Payne
Democrat · NJ-10
Vote: Not Voting
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
Republican · FL-27
Vote: Not Voting
C. Ruppersberger
Democrat · MD-2
Vote: Not Voting
Mark Takai
Democrat · HI-1
Vote: Not Voting
Dina Titus
Democratic · NV-1
Vote: Not Voting

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Last updated: 11/17/2015Roll call: house-114-1-632