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House · 114th Congress · Session 2 · Roll 556

House vote house-114-2-556

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: 9/22/2016

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 9/22/2016
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 2
Roll number
556
Record identifier
house-114-2-556
This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 1101 Davis Street in Evanston, Illinois, as the “Abner J. Mikva Post Office Building” 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 ≥ 277 Yea out of 414 voting (2/3 of those voting).

Vote breakdown

Total recorded votes: 431
Not Voting list
16 members
Lou Barletta
Republican · PA-11
Vote: Not Voting
Earl L. "Buddy" Carter
Republican · GA-1
Vote: Not Voting
Jim Costa
Democratic · CA-21
Vote: Not Voting
Sam Farr
Democrat · CA-20
Vote: Not Voting
Stephen Fincher
Republican · TN-8
Vote: Not Voting
Luis Gutiérrez
Democrat · IL-4
Vote: Not Voting
Richard Hanna
Republican · NY-22
Vote: Not Voting
Daniel Kildee
Democrat · MI-5
Vote: Not Voting
Ted Lieu
Democratic · CA-36
Vote: Not Voting
Gwen Moore
Democratic · WI-4
Vote: Not Voting
Donald Payne
Democrat · NJ-10
Vote: Not Voting
Nancy Pelosi
Democratic · CA-11
Vote: Not Voting
Ted Poe
Republican · TX-2
Vote: Not Voting
Bobby Rush
Democrat · IL-1
Vote: Not Voting
Loretta Sanchez
Democrat · CA-46
Vote: Not Voting
Mimi Walters
Republican · CA-45
Vote: Not Voting

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Last updated: 9/22/2016Roll call: house-114-2-556