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Mazie Hirono: On rollcall No. 576, had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' Amendment No. 68 Offered by Mr. Royce The Acting…

On the recordJuly 14, 2011
On rollcall No. 576, had I been present, I would have voted ``aye.'' Amendment No. 68 Offered by Mr. Royce The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Royce) 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 136, noes 291, not voting 4, as follows: [Roll No. 577] AYES--136 Adams Akin Amash Bachmann Barton (TX) Benishek Bilirakis Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Bono Mack Boustany Broun (GA) Buchanan Burgess Burton (IN) Calvert Campbell Canseco Cantor Chabot Chaffetz Coble Coffman (CO) Conaway Costa Cravaack Denham Duncan (TN) Farenthold Fincher Flake Fleming Flores Foxx Franks (AZ) Gallegly Gardner Garrett Gibson Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grimm Guthrie Harris Hartzler Hensarling Herger Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hunter Hurt Issa Jenkins Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kline Labrador Landry Lewis (CA) Long Luetkemeyer Lummis Lungren, Daniel E.…
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Jul 14, 2011

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