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Ways & Means chair leads vote to find Holcomb Amendment unfavorable
Summary
At a Ways & Means meeting at noon, the committee voted to find the Holcomb Amendment unfavorable. The transcript does not include a roll-call tally or the amendment's substantive text; the panel scheduled further discussion of an "excess spending threshold."
At its noon Ways & Means meeting, the chair led the panel in a vote to find the Holcomb Amendment unfavorable, instructing members to indicate their positions by raising their hands and recording the result.
The chair said, "We are voting to find the amendment unfavorable," and called for those in favor and those opposed. The transcript records the motion and its adoption but does not include a roll-call tally or details about the amendment's substantive changes.
During roll call the name "Deborah Henstropel" was called. The chair later said, "So you're filing that unfavorable at 08:30." The transcript shows no mover or seconder on the record and does not list individual yes/no votes.
The chair closed the item by scheduling additional deliberations on a related topic, saying, "I look forward to having a much longer conversation about the excess spending threshold next week or the week after." No further votes or actions on that threshold were recorded in the provided transcript.
The record supplied to this article contains the committee's statements and the vote to find the amendment unfavorable; it does not include the amendment text, a roll-call tally, or other supporting documents.
