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Terri Sewell: During rollcall vote number 24 on January 8, 2016, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted…

On the recordJanuary 8, 2016
During rollcall vote number 24 on January 8, 2016, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Deutch The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutch) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. The Clerk will redesignate the amendment. The Clerk redesignated the amendment. Recorded Vote The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote has been demanded. A recorded vote was ordered. The Acting CHAIR. This will be a 2-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 163, noes 232, not voting 38, as follows: [Roll No. 25] AYES--163 Adams Aguilar Ashford Beatty Becerra Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Bonamici Boyle, Brendan F. Brady (PA) Brownley (CA) Bustos Butterfield Capps Cardenas Carney Carson (IN) Cartwright Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cicilline Clarke (NY) Clay Clyburn Cohen Connolly Conyers Courtney Crowley Cuellar Cummings Davis (CA) Davis, Danny DeFazio DeGette Delaney DelBene Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F.…
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Terri Sewell
Democratic · Alabama
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Jan 8, 2016

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