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House · 114th Congress · Session 2 · Roll 400

House vote house-114-2-400

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

On Closing Portions of the Conference

Date: 7/8/2016

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 7/8/2016
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 2
Roll number
400
Record identifier
house-114-2-400
This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Closing Portions of the Conference National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 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 met
Computed using Yea vs Nay among those voting (Yea+Nay = 411).

Vote breakdown

Total recorded votes: 433
Not Voting list
22 members
Joe Barton
Republican · TX-6
Vote: Not Voting
Mike Bost
Republican · IL-12
Vote: Not Voting
Corrine Brown
Democrat · FL-5
Vote: Not Voting
Matthew Cartwright
Democrat · PA-17
Vote: Not Voting
Elijah Cummings
Democrat · MD-7
Vote: Not Voting
John Delaney
Democrat · MD-6
Vote: Not Voting
John Duncan
Republican · TN-2
Vote: Not Voting
Stephen Fincher
Republican · TN-8
Vote: Not Voting
Alcee Hastings
Democrat · FL-20
Vote: Not Voting
Tim Huelskamp
Republican · KS-1
Vote: Not Voting
Ann Kirkpatrick
Democrat · AZ-1
Vote: Not Voting
Kenny Marchant
Republican · TX-24
Vote: Not Voting
Jerrold Nadler
Democratic · NY-12
Vote: Not Voting
Richard Nugent
Republican · FL-11
Vote: Not Voting
Ted Poe
Republican · TX-2
Vote: Not Voting
Mike D. Rogers
Republican · AL-3
Vote: Not Voting
Mark Takai
Democrat · HI-1
Vote: Not Voting
Bennie G. Thompson
Democratic · MS-2
Vote: Not Voting
Michael R. Turner
Republican · OH-10
Vote: Not Voting
Filemon Vela
Democrat · TX-34
Vote: Not Voting
Maxine Waters
Democratic · CA-43
Vote: Not Voting
Daniel Webster
Republican · FL-11
Vote: Not Voting

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Last updated: 7/8/2016Roll call: house-114-2-400