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House · 114th Congress · Session 2 · Roll 621

House vote house-114-2-621

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

Whether the House should send the bill back for more changes

Official question: On Motion to Recommit with Instructions

Date: 12/8/2016

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 12/8/2016
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
114 / 2
Roll number
621
Record identifier
house-114-2-621
This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Motion to Recommit with Instructions To designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 1300 Victoria Street in Laredo, Texas, as the “George P. Kazen Federal Building and United States Courthouse” No bill link is listed for this roll call in the source feed. Recorded outcome: Failed.

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Result

Official result: Failed
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 = 420).

Vote breakdown

Total recorded votes: 433
Not Voting list
13 members
James E. Clyburn
Democratic · SC-6
Vote: Not Voting
Stephen Fincher
Republican · TN-8
Vote: Not Voting
J. Forbes
Republican · VA-4
Vote: Not Voting
Gene Green
Democrat · TX-29
Vote: Not Voting
Cresent Hardy
Republican · NV-4
Vote: Not Voting
Ann Kirkpatrick
Democrat · AZ-1
Vote: Not Voting
Jim McDermott
Democrat · WA-7
Vote: Not Voting
Ted Poe
Republican · TX-2
Vote: Not Voting
Tom Price
Republican · GA-6
Vote: Not Voting
James Renacci
Republican · OH-16
Vote: Not Voting
Loretta Sanchez
Democrat · CA-46
Vote: Not Voting
Christopher H. Smith
Republican · NJ-4
Vote: Not Voting
Lynn Westmoreland
Republican · GA-3
Vote: Not Voting

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Last updated: 12/8/2016Roll call: house-114-2-621