H.Res. 640Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4596) to ensure that small business providers of broadband Internet access service can devote resources to broadband deployment rather than compliance with cumbersome regulatory requirements, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3797) to establish the bases by which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall issue, implement, and enforce certain emission limitations and allocations for existing electric utility steam generating units that convert coal refuse into energy.

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Sponsor: Steve Stivers [R-OH-15]
Policy area: Congress
Committee: Rules Committee
Latest action: Mar 15, 2016 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

IntroducedMar 14, 2016
Passed the HouseMar 15, 2016

What the measure doesCRS summary

Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4596) to ensure that small business providers of broadband Internet access service can devote resources to broadband deployment rather than compliance with cumbersome regulatory requirements, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 3797) to establish the bases by which the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency shall issue, implement, and enforce certain emission limitations and allocations for existing electric utility steam generating units that convert coal refuse into energy.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.Res. 640 as introduced in House on Mar 14, 2016. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.

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Mar 15, 2016Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveMar 15, 2016

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House Mar 15, 2016 · the primary vote

On Ordering the Previous Question

Providing for consideration of H.R. 4596, the Small Business Boradband Deployment Act and H.R. 3797, the Satisfying Energy Needs and Saving the Environment Act

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235 Yea 177 Nay 21 not voting

Party-line vote No voting member broke with their own party.

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All members433 members

Democratic188 members

Republican245 members

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