House · 114th Congress · Session 2 · Roll 196

House vote house-114-2-196

No related bill listed for this roll call.

What is this vote?

Whether the House should end debate and move to the next step

Official question: On Ordering the Previous Question

Date: 5/17/2016

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 5/17/2016

Chamber

House

Data source

Clerk of the House (roll call votes)

Congress / Session

114 / 2

Roll number

196

Record identifier

house-114-2-196

This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Ordering the Previous Question Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4909) to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes No bill link is listed for this roll call in the source feed. Recorded outcome: Passed.

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