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Filemon Vela: During rollcall vote No. 258 on the Brown (GA) amendment H.R. 1947, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I…

On the recordJune 19, 2013
During rollcall vote No. 258 on the Brown (GA) amendment H.R. 1947, I was unavoidably detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' Amendment No. 8 Offered by Mr. Blumenauer The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished business is the demand for a recorded vote on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer) 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 is a 2-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 179, noes 242, not voting 13, as follows: [Roll No. 259] AYES--179 Andrews Barber Bass Beatty Becerra Bera (CA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Bonamici Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown (FL) Brownley (CA) Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardenas Carney Carson (IN) Cartwright Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu Cicilline Clarke Clay Clyburn Cohen Connolly Cooper Courtney Crowley Cummings Davis (CA) Davis, Danny DeFazio DeGette Delaney DeLauro DelBene Dent Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle Duckworth Edwards Ellison Engel Eshoo Esty Farr Fattah Fitzpatrick Fortenberry Frankel (FL) Frelinghuysen Fudge Gabbard Garamendi Garcia Gerlach Grayson Grijalva Hahn Hanabusa Harris Heck (WA) Higgins Himes Horsford Hoyer Huffman Israel Jackson Lee Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B.…
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Jun 19, 2013

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