Chip Roy: “I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted…”

On the recordJune 16, 2021

I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on Roll Call No. 163. members recorded pursuant to house resolution 8, 117th congress Barragan (Gallego) Cardenas (Gomez) Cleaver (Davids (KS)) DeSaulnier (Thompson (CA)) Gaetz (Greene (GA)) Granger (Arrington) Grijalva (Garcia (IL)) Horsford (Jeffries) Hoyer (Brown) Johnson (TX) (Jeffries) Kim (NJ) (Pallone) Kirkpatrick (Stanton) Langevin (Courtney) Lawson (FL) (Evans) Lieu (Raskin) Lowenthal (Beyer) Meng (Clark (MA)) Mullin (Lucas) Napolitano (Correa) Nehls (Fallon) O'Halleran (Stanton) Payne (Pallone) Porter (Wexton) Roybal-Allard (Escobar) Ruiz (Aguilar) Rush (Underwood) Sewell (DelBene) Sherrill (Pallone) Speier (Scanlon) Strickland (Kilmer) Wilson (FL) (Hayes) ____________________

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Jun 16, 2021

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