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        <text>On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR 7/28/2009 H8938-8939)</text>
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        <text>At the conclusion of debate, the chair put the question on the motion to suspend the rules. Mr. Lungren, Daniel E. objected to the vote on the grounds that a quorum was not present. Further proceedings on the motion were postponed. The point of no quorum was withdrawn.</text>
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        <text>DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2510.</text>
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        <text>Mrs. Davis (CA) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.</text>
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        <text>Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 85.</text>
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        <fullName>Rep. Davis, Susan A. [D-CA-53]</fullName>
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        <title>H.R. 2510, Absentee Ballot Track, Receive, and Confirm Act</title>
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        <description>&lt;p&gt;Cost estimate for the bill as ordered reported by the Committee on House Administration on June 10, 2009&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p>Absentee Ballot Track, Receive, and Confirm Act - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to direct the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to make a payment to reimburse a state for the costs incurred in establishing, if the state so chooses, an absentee ballot tracking program for federal elections. </p>]]></text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)</b></p> <p> Absentee Ballot Track, Receive, and Confirm Act - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to direct the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to make a payment to reimburse a state for the costs incurred in establishing, if the state so chooses, an absentee ballot tracking program for federal elections. </p>]]></text>
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        <text><![CDATA[ <p><b>(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)</b></p> <p>Absentee Ballot Track, Receive, and Confirm Act - Amends the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to direct the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to make a payment to reimburse a state for the costs incurred in establishing, if the state so chooses, an absentee ballot tracking program for federal elections. </p>]]></text>
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        <title>To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to reimburse States for the costs incurred in establishing a program to track and confirm the receipt of voted absentee ballots in elections for Federal office and make information on the receipt of such ballots available by means of online access, and for other purposes.</title>
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