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Chris Van Hollen: On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. THE SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of…

On the recordSeptember 13, 2012
On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. THE SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 170, nays 247, not voting 12, as follows: [Roll No. 576] YEAS--170 Ackerman Andrews Baca Baldwin Barber Bass (CA) Becerra Berkley Berman Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Bonamici Boswell Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown (FL) Butterfield Capps Capuano Carnahan Carney Carson (IN) Castor (FL) Chu Cicilline Clarke (MI) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly (VA) Conyers Cooper Costa Costello Courtney Crowley Cuellar Cummings Davis (CA) Davis (IL) DeFazio DeGette DeLauro Deutch Dicks Dingell Doggett Doyle Edwards Ellison Engel Eshoo Farr Fattah Filner Frank (MA) Fudge Gonzalez Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Hahn Hanabusa Hastings (FL) Heinrich Higgins Himes Hinchey Hinojosa Hirono Hochul Holden Holt Honda Hoyer Israel Jackson Lee (TX) Johnson, E. B.…
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Chris Van Hollen
Democratic · Maryland
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Sep 13, 2012

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