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House · 114th Congress · Session 2 · Roll 479

House vote house-114-2-479

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

Whether the House should pass this bill under suspension of the rules

Official question: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass

Date: 9/6/2016

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 9/6/2016
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 2
Roll number
479
Record identifier
house-114-2-479
This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass Survivors’ Bill of Rights Act of 2016 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)
Two-thirds (of those voting)
Note: Some votes require 2/3 under chamber rules (e.g., suspension, overrides). The official record may apply special rules.
Threshold check (computed)
Appears met
Computed as ≥ 267 Yea out of 399 voting (2/3 of those voting).

Vote breakdown

Total recorded votes: 431
Not Voting list
32 members
Karen Bass
Democrat · CA-37
Vote: Not Voting
Charles Boustany
Republican · LA-3
Vote: Not Voting
Kevin Brady
Republican · TX-8
Vote: Not Voting
Corrine Brown
Democrat · FL-5
Vote: Not Voting
George Butterfield
Democrat · NC-1
Vote: Not Voting
Ken Calvert
Republican · CA-41
Vote: Not Voting
Yvette D. Clarke
Democratic · NY-9
Vote: Not Voting
Curtis Clawson
Republican · FL-19
Vote: Not Voting
Emanuel Cleaver
Democratic · MO-5
Vote: Not Voting
Kevin Cramer
Republican · ND
Vote: Not Voting
Ander Crenshaw
Republican · FL-4
Vote: Not Voting
Scott DesJarlais
Republican · TN-4
Vote: Not Voting
Tammy Duckworth
Democratic · IL
Vote: Not Voting
Raúl Grijalva
Democrat · AZ-3
Vote: Not Voting
Luis Gutiérrez
Democrat · IL-4
Vote: Not Voting
Sam Johnson
Republican · TX-3
Vote: Not Voting
Robin L. Kelly
Democratic · IL-2
Vote: Not Voting
Ron Kind
Democrat · WI-3
Vote: Not Voting
Ann Kirkpatrick
Democrat · AZ-1
Vote: Not Voting
Ted Lieu
Democratic · CA-36
Vote: Not Voting
Billy Long
Republican · MO-7
Vote: Not Voting
Candice Miller
Republican · MI-10
Vote: Not Voting
Richard Nugent
Republican · FL-11
Vote: Not Voting
Steven Palazzo
Republican · MS-4
Vote: Not Voting
Ted Poe
Republican · TX-2
Vote: Not Voting
David Reichert
Republican · WA-8
Vote: Not Voting
Cedric Richmond
Democrat · LA-2
Vote: Not Voting
Dennis Ross
Republican · FL-15
Vote: Not Voting
C. Ruppersberger
Democrat · MD-2
Vote: Not Voting
Bobby Rush
Democrat · IL-1
Vote: Not Voting
Loretta Sanchez
Democrat · CA-46
Vote: Not Voting
Kyrsten Sinema
Democrat · AZ-9
Vote: Not Voting

About this data

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Last updated: 9/6/2016Roll call: house-114-2-479