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House · 114th Congress · Session 2 · Roll 55

House vote house-114-2-55

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

Whether the House should end debate and move to the next step

Official question: On Ordering the Previous Question

Date: 2/3/2016

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 2/3/2016
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 2
Roll number
55
Record identifier
house-114-2-55
This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Ordering the Previous Question Providing for consideration of H.R. 1675, the Encouraging Employee Ownership Act of 2015, and providing for consideration of H.R. 766, the Financial Institution Customer Protection Act of 2015 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 not met
Computed using Yea vs Nay among those voting (Yea+Nay = 176).

Vote breakdown

Total recorded votes: 433
Not Voting list
17 members
Mark E. Amodei
Republican · NV-2
Vote: Not Voting
Donald S. Beyer
Democratic · VA-8
Vote: Not Voting
Michael Capuano
Democrat · MA-7
Vote: Not Voting
André Carson
Democratic · IN-7
Vote: Not Voting
Joaquin Castro
Democratic · TX-20
Vote: Not Voting
John Conyers
Democrat · MI-13
Vote: Not Voting
Theodore Deutch
Democrat · FL-21
Vote: Not Voting
Keith Ellison
Democrat · MN-5
Vote: Not Voting
John Fleming
Republican · LA-4
Vote: Not Voting
Janice Hahn
Democrat · CA-44
Vote: Not Voting
Jaime Herrera Beutler
Republican · WA-3
Vote: Not Voting
Jody Hice
Republican · GA-10
Vote: Not Voting
Barry Loudermilk
Republican · GA-11
Vote: Not Voting
Bobby Rush
Democrat · IL-1
Vote: Not Voting
John Sarbanes
Democrat · MD-3
Vote: Not Voting
Adam Smith
Democratic · WA-9
Vote: Not Voting
Lynn Westmoreland
Republican · GA-3
Vote: Not Voting

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Last updated: 2/3/2016Roll call: house-114-2-55