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House · 114th Congress · Session 2 · Roll 521

House vote house-114-2-521

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, as Amended

Date: 9/20/2016

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 9/20/2016
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 2
Roll number
521
Record identifier
house-114-2-521
This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended Special Needs Trust Fairness and Medicaid Improvement Act 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 ≥ 271 Yea out of 405 voting (2/3 of those voting).

Vote breakdown

Total recorded votes: 431
Not Voting list
26 members
Suzanne Bonamici
Democratic · OR-1
Vote: Not Voting
Charles Boustany
Republican · LA-3
Vote: Not Voting
John Carney
Democrat · DE-0
Vote: Not Voting
Tammy Duckworth
Democratic · IL
Vote: Not Voting
Tom Emmer
Republican · MN-6
Vote: Not Voting
Stephen Fincher
Republican · TN-8
Vote: Not Voting
J. Forbes
Republican · VA-4
Vote: Not Voting
Luis Gutiérrez
Democrat · IL-4
Vote: Not Voting
Rubén Hinojosa
Democrat · TX-15
Vote: Not Voting
Sam Johnson
Republican · TX-3
Vote: Not Voting
Marcy Kaptur
Democratic · OH-9
Vote: Not Voting
Robin L. Kelly
Democratic · IL-2
Vote: Not Voting
Ann Kirkpatrick
Democrat · AZ-1
Vote: Not Voting
Billy Long
Republican · MO-7
Vote: Not Voting
Gregory W. Meeks
Democratic · NY-5
Vote: Not Voting
Candice Miller
Republican · MI-10
Vote: Not Voting
Ted Poe
Republican · TX-2
Vote: Not Voting
Thomas Rooney
Republican · FL-17
Vote: Not Voting
Bobby Rush
Democrat · IL-1
Vote: Not Voting
Tim Ryan
Democrat · OH-13
Vote: Not Voting
Loretta Sanchez
Democrat · CA-46
Vote: Not Voting
Kurt Schrader
Democrat · OR-5
Vote: Not Voting
Marlin A. Stutzman
Republican · IN-3
Vote: Not Voting
Ann Wagner
Republican · MO-2
Vote: Not Voting
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · FL-25
Vote: Not Voting
Frederica S. Wilson
Democratic · FL-24
Vote: Not Voting

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Last updated: 9/20/2016Roll call: house-114-2-521