House · 114th Congress · Session 2 · Roll 170
House vote house-114-2-170
No related bill listed for this roll call.
What is this vote?Voting on a proposed change
Official question: On Agreeing to the Amendment
Date: 4/27/2016
Sources
Provenance for this roll-call record.
Vote date: 4/27/2016
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 2
Roll number
170
Record identifier
house-114-2-170
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What this vote does
On Agreeing to the Amendment No bill link is listed for this roll call in the source feed. Recorded outcome: Failed.
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Result
Official result: Failed
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 = 411).
Vote breakdown
Yea
139 members
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Nay
272 members
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Present
0 members
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Not Voting
22 members
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Total recorded votes: 433
Not Voting list
22 members
Mark E. Amodei
Republican · NV-2
Vote: Not Voting
John Conyers
Democrat · MI-13
Vote: Not Voting
Chaka Fattah
Democrat · PA-2
Vote: Not Voting
Louie Gohmert
Republican · TX-1
Vote: Not Voting
Luis Gutiérrez
Democrat · IL-4
Vote: Not Voting
Richard Hanna
Republican · NY-22
Vote: Not Voting
Darrell Issa
Republican · CA-48
Vote: Not Voting
Sheila Jackson Lee
Democrat · TX-18
Vote: Not Voting
Hakeem S. Jeffries
Democratic · NY-8
Vote: Not Voting
Marcy Kaptur
Democratic · OH-9
Vote: Not Voting
Brenda Lawrence
Democrat · MI-14
Vote: Not Voting
Stephen F. Lynch
Democratic · MA-8
Vote: Not Voting
Tom MacArthur
Republican · NJ-3
Vote: Not Voting
Michael T. McCaul
Republican · TX-10
Vote: Not Voting
Bill Pascrell
Democrat · NJ-9
Vote: Not Voting
Robert Pittenger
Republican · NC-9
Vote: Not Voting
Cedric Richmond
Democrat · LA-2
Vote: Not Voting
Terri A. Sewell
Democratic · AL-7
Vote: Not Voting
Norma J. Torres
Democratic · CA-35
Vote: Not Voting
Chris Van Hollen
Democratic · MD
Vote: Not Voting
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · FL-25
Vote: Not Voting
Lynn Westmoreland
Republican · GA-3
Vote: Not Voting
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Last updated: 4/27/2016Roll call: house-114-2-170