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House · 114th Congress · Session 1 · Roll 679

House vote house-114-1-679

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: 12/8/2015

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 12/8/2015
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 1
Roll number
679
Record identifier
house-114-1-679
This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015 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 ≥ 285 Yea out of 426 voting (2/3 of those voting).

Vote breakdown

Total recorded votes: 433
Not Voting list
7 members
Pete Aguilar
Democratic · CA-33
Vote: Not Voting
Mike Bishop
Republican · MI-8
Vote: Not Voting
Daniel Donovan
Republican · NY-11
Vote: Not Voting
Sam Johnson
Republican · TX-3
Vote: Not Voting
John Lewis
Democrat · GA-5
Vote: Not Voting
Ed Perlmutter
Democrat · CO-7
Vote: Not Voting
Bobby Rush
Democrat · IL-1
Vote: Not Voting

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Last updated: 12/8/2015Roll call: house-114-1-679