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On the recordJune 18, 2019
Madam Chair, I arrived from committee late. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 324. Amendment No. 79 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee The Acting CHAIR (Ms. Underwood). The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee) on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the ayes 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 414, noes 6, not voting 18, as follows: [Roll No. 325] AYES--414 Adams Aderholt Aguilar Allen Allred Amash Amodei Armstrong Babin Bacon Baird Balderson Banks Barr Barragan Bass Beatty Bera Bergman Beyer Biggs Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (UT) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Bost Boyle, Brendan F.…
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