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Lucille Roybal-Allard: I was unavoidably detained and was not present for one roll call vote on Friday, September 25, 2015. Had I been present…

On the recordSeptember 25, 2015
I was unavoidably detained and was not present for one roll call vote on Friday, September 25, 2015. Had I been present, I would have voted in this manner: Rollcall vote No. 509--Grijalva amendment--``yes.'' Personal Explanation Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Chair, on rollcall Nos. 508 and 509 I was detained and missed the votes. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no'' on both. Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Gallego The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gallego) 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 179, noes 230, not voting 25, as follows: [Roll No. 510] AYES--179 Adams Aguilar Ashford Bass Beatty Becerra Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Bonamici Boyle, Brendan F. Brady (PA) Brown (FL) Brownley (CA) Bustos Butterfield Byrne Capps Capuano Cardenas Carney Carson (IN) Cartwright Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu, Judy Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Conyers Cooper Costa Courtney Crowley Cummings Davis (CA) Davis, Danny DeFazio DeGette Delaney DeLauro DelBene DeSaulnier Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F.…
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Lucille Roybal-Allard
California
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Sep 25, 2015

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