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House · 115th Congress · Session 2 · Roll 381

House vote house-115-2-381

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: 9/4/2018

Sources

Provenance for this roll-call record.

Vote date: 9/4/2018
Chamber
House
Data source
Clerk of the House (roll call votes)
Congress / Session
115 / 2
Roll number
381
Record identifier
house-115-2-381
This is the canonical roll-call identifier stored in OurCongress.

What this vote does

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass Biometric Identification Transnational Migration Alert Program Authorization 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 ≥ 261 Yea out of 391 voting (2/3 of those voting).

Vote breakdown

Total recorded votes: 428
Not Voting list
37 members
Pete Aguilar
Democratic · CA-33
Vote: Not Voting
Marsha Blackburn
Republican · TN
Vote: Not Voting
Robert Brady
Democrat · PA-1
Vote: Not Voting
Michael Capuano
Democrat · MA-7
Vote: Not Voting
Kathy Castor
Democratic · FL-14
Vote: Not Voting
John Culberson
Republican · TX-7
Vote: Not Voting
Ron DeSantis
Republican · FL-6
Vote: Not Voting
Keith Ellison
Democrat · MN-5
Vote: Not Voting
Anna Eshoo
Democrat · CA-18
Vote: Not Voting
Ruben Gallego
Democratic · AZ
Vote: Not Voting
Paul A. Gosar
Republican · AZ-9
Vote: Not Voting
Trey Gowdy
Republican · SC-4
Vote: Not Voting
Raúl Grijalva
Democrat · AZ-3
Vote: Not Voting
Luis Gutiérrez
Democrat · IL-4
Vote: Not Voting
Duncan Hunter
Republican · CA-50
Vote: Not Voting
Evan Jenkins
Republican · WV-3
Vote: Not Voting
Walter Jones
Republican · NC-3
Vote: Not Voting
William R. Keating
Democratic · MA-9
Vote: Not Voting
Joseph Kennedy
Democrat · MA-4
Vote: Not Voting
Sean Maloney
Democrat · NY-18
Vote: Not Voting
Jerry McNerney
Democrat · CA-9
Vote: Not Voting
Richard E. Neal
Democratic · MA-1
Vote: Not Voting
Beto O’Rourke
Democrat · TX-16
Vote: Not Voting
Steven Palazzo
Republican · MS-4
Vote: Not Voting
Donald Payne
Democrat · NJ-10
Vote: Not Voting
Ted Poe
Republican · TX-2
Vote: Not Voting
Dana Rohrabacher
Republican · CA-48
Vote: Not Voting
Todd Rokita
Republican · IN-4
Vote: Not Voting
Thomas Rooney
Republican · FL-17
Vote: Not Voting
Bobby Rush
Democrat · IL-1
Vote: Not Voting
Jackie Speier
Democrat · CA-14
Vote: Not Voting
Eric Swalwell
Democratic · CA-14
Vote: Not Voting
Scott Tipton
Republican · CO-3
Vote: Not Voting
Dina Titus
Democratic · NV-1
Vote: Not Voting
Niki Tsongas
Democrat · MA-3
Vote: Not Voting
Timothy Walz
Democrat · MN-1
Vote: Not Voting
Frederica S. Wilson
Democratic · FL-24
Vote: Not Voting

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Last updated: 9/4/2018Roll call: house-115-2-381