House · 114th Congress · Session 2 · Roll 491
House vote house-114-2-491
No related bill listed for this roll call.
What is this vote?On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree
Date: 9/8/2016
Sources
Provenance for this roll-call record.
Vote date: 9/8/2016
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 2
Roll number
491
Record identifier
house-114-2-491
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What this vote does
On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives to support the territorial intergrity of Georgia 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)
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Threshold check (computed)
Appears met
Computed as ≥ 278 Yea out of 416 voting (2/3 of those voting).
Vote breakdown
Total recorded votes: 431
Not Voting list
15 members
Sanford D. Bishop
Democratic · GA-2
Vote: Not Voting
Corrine Brown
Democrat · FL-5
Vote: Not Voting
Scott DesJarlais
Republican · TN-4
Vote: Not Voting
Rodney Frelinghuysen
Republican · NJ-11
Vote: Not Voting
Tulsi Gabbard
Democrat · HI-2
Vote: Not Voting
Tim Huelskamp
Republican · KS-1
Vote: Not Voting
Sam Johnson
Republican · TX-3
Vote: Not Voting
Richard Nugent
Republican · FL-11
Vote: Not Voting
Steven Palazzo
Republican · MS-4
Vote: Not Voting
David Reichert
Republican · WA-8
Vote: Not Voting
Dennis Ross
Republican · FL-15
Vote: Not Voting
Loretta Sanchez
Democrat · CA-46
Vote: Not Voting
Tim Walberg
Republican · MI-5
Vote: Not Voting
Mimi Walters
Republican · CA-45
Vote: Not Voting
Lynn Westmoreland
Republican · GA-3
Vote: Not Voting
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Last updated: 9/8/2016Roll call: house-114-2-491