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On the recordNovember 21, 2013
On rollcall No. 607 I was detained chairing a Financial Services subcommittee hearing. Had I been present, I would have voted ``no.'' Amendment No. 4 Offered by Ms. Jackson Lee The Acting CHAIR. 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 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 175, noes 243, not voting 12, as follows: [Roll No. 608] AYES--175 Andrews Bass Beatty Becerra Bera (CA) Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Bonamici Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Brown (FL) Brownley (CA) Bustos Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardenas Carney Carson (IN) Cartwright Castor (FL) Chu Cicilline Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Conyers Cooper Crowley Cummings Davis (CA) Davis, Danny DeFazio DeGette Delaney DeLauro DelBene Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle Duckworth Edwards Ellison Engel Enyart Eshoo Esty Farr Fattah Foster Frankel (FL) Fudge Gabbard Garamendi Grayson Grijalva Gutierrez Hahn Hanabusa Hastings (FL) Heck (WA) Higgins Hinojosa Holt Honda Horsford Huffman Israel Jackson Lee Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B.…
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Thomas A. Garrett
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