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On the recordMay 18, 2012
I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 299, noes 120, not voting 12, as follows: [Roll No. 291] AYES--299 Ackerman Adams Aderholt Akin Alexander Altmire Andrews Austria Baca Bachmann Bachus Barletta Barrow Bartlett Barton (TX) Bass (NH) Benishek Berg Berkley Berman Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Bonner Bono Mack Boren Boswell Boustany Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Brooks Broun (GA) Brown (FL) Buchanan Bucshon Buerkle Burton (IN) Calvert Camp Canseco Cantor Capito Carnahan Carney Carter Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Chandler Chu Coble Coffman (CO) Cole Conaway Connolly (VA) Cooper Costa Courtney Cravaack Crawford Crenshaw Critz Cuellar Culberson Cummings Davis (CA) Davis (KY) Denham Dent DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Dicks Dingell Doggett Dold Donnelly (IN) Dreier Duffy Duncan (SC) Ellmers Emerson Engel Farenthold Fincher Fitzpatrick Flake Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Gardner Garrett Gerlach Gibbs Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Gonzalez Goodlatte Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Green, Al Green, Gene Griffin (AR) Grimm Guinta Guthrie Hall Hanabusa Hanna Harper Harris Hartzler Hastings (WA) Hayworth Heck Heinrich Hensarling Herger Herrera Beutler Higgins Hinojosa Hirono Hochul Holden Hoyer Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Hurt Israel Issa Jackson Lee (TX) Jenkins Jo…
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