House · 114th Congress · Session 2 · Roll 198
House vote house-114-2-198
No related bill listed for this roll call.
What is this vote?On Motion to Instruct Conferees
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
198
Record identifier
house-114-2-198
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What this vote does
On Motion to Instruct Conferees Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 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 = 418).
Vote breakdown
Yea
182 members
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Nay
236 members
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Present
0 members
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Not Voting
15 members
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Total recorded votes: 433
Not Voting list
15 members
John Conyers
Democrat · MI-13
Vote: Not Voting
Eric A. "Rick" Crawford
Republican · AR-1
Vote: Not Voting
Carlos Curbelo
Republican · FL-26
Vote: Not Voting
Chaka Fattah
Democrat · PA-2
Vote: Not Voting
John Garamendi
Democratic · CA-8
Vote: Not Voting
Jaime Herrera Beutler
Republican · WA-3
Vote: Not Voting
Rubén Hinojosa
Democrat · TX-15
Vote: Not Voting
Sam Johnson
Republican · TX-3
Vote: Not Voting
John Lewis
Democrat · GA-5
Vote: Not Voting
Ted Lieu
Democratic · CA-36
Vote: Not Voting
Charles Rangel
Democrat · NY-13
Vote: Not Voting
Martha Roby
Republican · AL-2
Vote: Not Voting
Mark Takai
Democrat · HI-1
Vote: Not Voting
Dina Titus
Democratic · NV-1
Vote: Not Voting
Ed Whitfield
Republican · KY-1
Vote: Not Voting
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Last updated: 5/17/2016Roll call: house-114-2-198