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H.R. 244: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017

This vote was on the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017, which would fund the government through the remainder of fiscal year 2017, that is, through the end of September 2017.

Prior to this vote, this bill, H.R. 244, was the Honoring Investments in Recruiting and Employing American Military Veterans Act of 2017. With this vote, the House replaced the text of H.R. 244 with the text of the appropriations bill.

This vote was related to a bill introduced by Rep. Paul Cook [R-CA8] on January 4, 2017, H.R. 244: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017.
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Congress
115th Congress
Date
May 3, 2017
Chamber
House
Number
#249
Question:
Concurring in the Senate Amendment in the House
Result:
Passed

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Key: R Yea D Yea R Nay D Nay
Seat position based on our ideology score.
This is a cartogram. Each hexagon represents one congressional district.
Totals     Republican     Democrat
  Yea 309
 
 
72%
131 178
  Nay 118
 
 
27%
103 15
Not Voting 4
 
 
1%
4 0
Required: Simple Majority source: house.gov

Vote Details

Notes: The Speaker’s Vote?
The Speaker of the House is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings, except when such vote would be decisive.” In practice, this means the Speaker of the House rarely votes and only does so when it is politically useful. When the Speaker declines to vote, he or she is simply omitted from the roll call by the House Clerk. (See House Rules, Rule I(7).)
“Aye” or “Yea”?

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The U.S. Constitution says that bills should be decided on by the “yeas and nays” (Article I, Section 7). Congress takes this literally and uses “yea” and “nay” when voting on the final passage of bills.

All Senate votes use these words. But the House of Representatives uses “Aye” and “No” in other sorts of votes.

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