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Adriano Espaillat: I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 140. Amendment No. 3 Offered…

On the recordMarch 9, 2017
I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 140. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. Deutch The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Florida (Mr. Deutch) 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 189, noes 228, not voting 12, as follows: [Roll No. 141] AYES--189 Adams Aguilar Amash Barragan Bass Beatty Bera Beyer Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Blunt Rochester Bonamici Boyle, Brendan F. Brady (PA) Brown (MD) Brownley (CA) Bustos Butterfield Capuano Carbajal Cardenas Carson (IN) Cartwright Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu, Judy Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Clyburn Cohen Connolly Conyers Cooper Correa Costa Courtney Crist Crowley Cuellar Cummings Curbelo (FL) Davis, Danny DeFazio DeGette Delaney DeLauro DelBene Demings DeSaulnier Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle, Michael F.…
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Adriano Espaillat
Democratic · New York
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Mar 9, 2017

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