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House · 114th Congress · Session 2 · Roll 596

House vote house-114-2-596

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: 12/1/2016

Sources

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Vote date: 12/1/2016
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 2
Roll number
596
Record identifier
house-114-2-596
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What this vote does

On Ordering the Previous Question Providing for consideration of the conference report to accompany the bill (S. 2943) the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017, and for other purposes 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 met
Computed using Yea vs Nay among those voting (Yea+Nay = 415).

Vote breakdown

Total recorded votes: 434
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19 members
Corrine Brown
Democrat · FL-5
Vote: Not Voting
John Carney
Democrat · DE-0
Vote: Not Voting
Peter DeFazio
Democrat · OR-4
Vote: Not Voting
Mark DeSaulnier
Democratic · CA-10
Vote: Not Voting
Stephen Fincher
Republican · TN-8
Vote: Not Voting
Bill Flores
Republican · TX-17
Vote: Not Voting
J. Forbes
Republican · VA-4
Vote: Not Voting
Scott Garrett
Republican · NJ-5
Vote: Not Voting
Janice Hahn
Democrat · CA-44
Vote: Not Voting
David Jolly
Republican · FL-13
Vote: Not Voting
Walter Jones
Republican · NC-3
Vote: Not Voting
Ann Kirkpatrick
Democrat · AZ-1
Vote: Not Voting
Zoe Lofgren
Democratic · CA-18
Vote: Not Voting
Richard Nugent
Republican · FL-11
Vote: Not Voting
Ted Poe
Republican · TX-2
Vote: Not Voting
James Renacci
Republican · OH-16
Vote: Not Voting
Filemon Vela
Democrat · TX-34
Vote: Not Voting
Lynn Westmoreland
Republican · GA-3
Vote: Not Voting
Roger Williams
Republican · TX-25
Vote: Not Voting

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Last updated: 12/1/2016Roll call: house-114-2-596