Mr. Speaker, on Thursday, May 10th, 2012, I was absent during rollcall vote No. 248 in order to attend my grandson's graduation. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on the Motion to Recommit with Instructions H.R. 5326, Making appropriations for the Departments of Commerce and Justice, Science, and Related Agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, and for other purposes. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill. Under clause 10 of rule XX, the yeas and nays are ordered. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 247, nays 163, not voting 21, as follows: [Roll No. 249] YEAS--247 Ackerman Adams Aderholt Akin Alexander Amodei Austria Bachmann Bachus Barletta Barrow Bartlett Bass (NH) Benishek Berg Berkley Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Bonner Bono Mack Boren Boswell Boustany Brady (TX) Brooks Brown (FL) Buchanan Bucshon Buerkle Calvert Camp Canseco Cantor Capito Carney Carter Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Coble Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Costa Cravaack Crawford Crenshaw Cuellar Culberson Davis (KY) Denham Dent DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Dicks Dold Dreier Duffy Duncan (SC) Ellmers Emerson Farenthold Fattah Fincher Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Frelinghuysen Gardner Garrett Gerlach Gibbs Gibson Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grimm Guinta Guthrie Hal…
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