H.Res. 720Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4641) to provide for the establishment of an inter-agency task force to review, modify, and update best practices for pain management and prescribing pain medication, and for other purposes, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5046) to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to assist State and local governments in addressing the national epidemic of opioid abuse, and for other purposes.

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Sponsor: Doug Collins [R-GA-09]
Policy area: Congress
Committee: Rules Committee
Latest action: May 11, 2016 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

IntroducedMay 10, 2016
Passed the HouseMay 11, 2016

What the measure doesCRS summary

Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4641) to provide for the establishment of an inter-agency task force to review, modify, and update best practices for pain management and prescribing pain medication, and for other purposes, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 5046) to amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to authorize the Attorney General to make grants to assist State and local governments in addressing the national epidemic of opioid abuse.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.Res. 720 as introduced in House on May 10, 2016. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.

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May 11, 2016Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveMay 11, 2016

How every member votedHouse roll call 182

House May 11, 2016 · the primary vote

On Ordering the Previous Question

Providing for consideration of H.R. 4641, to provide for the establishment of an inter-agency task force to review, modify, and update best practices for pain management and prescribing pain medication, and for other purposes; and H.R. 5046, the Comprehensive Opioid Abuse Reduction Act of 2016

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215 Yea 173 Nay 45 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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