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House · 114th Congress · Session 2 · Roll 302

House vote house-114-2-302

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

Whether the House should send the bill back for more changes

Official question: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

Date: 6/14/2016

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 6/14/2016
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 2
Roll number
302
Record identifier
house-114-2-302
This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Motion to Recommit with Instructions Preventing IRS Abuse and Protecting Free Speech Act 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

Total recorded votes: 434
Not Voting list
16 members
Brendan F. Boyle
Democratic · PA-2
Vote: Not Voting
David Cicilline
Democrat · RI-1
Vote: Not Voting
Theodore Deutch
Democrat · FL-21
Vote: Not Voting
Debbie Dingell
Democratic · MI-6
Vote: Not Voting
Sean Duffy
Republican · WI-7
Vote: Not Voting
Chaka Fattah
Democrat · PA-2
Vote: Not Voting
J. Forbes
Republican · VA-4
Vote: Not Voting
Bob Goodlatte
Republican · VA-6
Vote: Not Voting
Jaime Herrera Beutler
Republican · WA-3
Vote: Not Voting
Rubén Hinojosa
Democrat · TX-15
Vote: Not Voting
Gwen Moore
Democratic · WI-4
Vote: Not Voting
Mick Mulvaney
Republican · SC-5
Vote: Not Voting
Edward Rigell
Republican · VA-2
Vote: Not Voting
Mark Takai
Democrat · HI-1
Vote: Not Voting
Bennie G. Thompson
Democratic · MS-2
Vote: Not Voting
Frederica S. Wilson
Democratic · FL-24
Vote: Not Voting

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Last updated: 6/14/2016Roll call: house-114-2-302