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On the recordJune 27, 2012
On rollcall No. 429, had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' Amendment Offered by Mr. Broun of Georgia The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the twelfth amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Broun) 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 160, noes 264, not voting 8, as follows: [Roll No. 430] AYES--160 Adams Akin Amash Bachmann Barrow Bartlett Barton (TX) Benishek Bilbray Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Boustany Brady (TX) Brooks Broun (GA) Buchanan Buerkle Burgess Burton (IN) Camp Campbell Canseco Cantor Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Coble Conaway Culberson Denham DesJarlais Dreier Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Ellmers Emerson Farenthold Fincher Flake Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Gardner Garrett Gingrey (GA) Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grimm Guinta Guthrie Hall Hartzler Hensarling Herger Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Hurt Issa Jenkins Johnson (IL) Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan King (IA) Kingston Kinzinger (IL) Kline Labrador Lamborn Lance Landry Lankford Latta Long Luetkemeyer Lummis M…
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