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House · 114th Congress · Session 2 · Roll 179

House vote house-114-2-179

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

Final passage vote

Official question: On Passage

Date: 4/29/2016

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 4/29/2016
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 2
Roll number
179
Record identifier
house-114-2-179
This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Passage Scholarships for Opportunity and Results Reauthorization 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)
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 = 181).

Vote breakdown

Total recorded votes: 433
Not Voting list
28 members
Ken Calvert
Republican · CA-41
Vote: Not Voting
André Carson
Democratic · IN-7
Vote: Not Voting
Chris Collins
Republican · NY-27
Vote: Not Voting
Eric A. "Rick" Crawford
Republican · AR-1
Vote: Not Voting
Danny K. Davis
Democratic · IL-7
Vote: Not Voting
Peter DeFazio
Democrat · OR-4
Vote: Not Voting
Tammy Duckworth
Democratic · IL
Vote: Not Voting
Eliot Engel
Democrat · NY-16
Vote: Not Voting
Chaka Fattah
Democrat · PA-2
Vote: Not Voting
Stephen Fincher
Republican · TN-8
Vote: Not Voting
Sam Graves
Republican · MO-6
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
John Katko
Republican · NY-24
Vote: Not Voting
William R. Keating
Democratic · MA-9
Vote: Not Voting
Trent Kelly
Republican · MS-1
Vote: Not Voting
Raúl Labrador
Republican · ID-1
Vote: Not Voting
Tom MacArthur
Republican · NJ-3
Vote: Not Voting
Dan Newhouse
Republican · WA-4
Vote: Not Voting
Donald Payne
Democrat · NJ-10
Vote: Not Voting
Loretta Sanchez
Democrat · CA-46
Vote: Not Voting
Lamar Smith
Republican · TX-21
Vote: Not Voting
Marlin A. Stutzman
Republican · IN-3
Vote: Not Voting
Mark Takai
Democrat · HI-1
Vote: Not Voting
Norma J. Torres
Democratic · CA-35
Vote: Not Voting
Niki Tsongas
Democrat · MA-3
Vote: Not Voting
Lynn Westmoreland
Republican · GA-3
Vote: Not Voting

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Last updated: 4/29/2016Roll call: house-114-2-179