House · Roll call 167 · 119th Congress, session 2

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should prioritize securing the release of Pastor Jin Mingri, Pastor Gao Quanfu and his wife Pang Yu, Dr. Gulshan Abbas, and Jimmy Lai detained by the People’s Republic of China during future engagements with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Agree: Passed 414–0 on May 13, 2026. Every voting member sided with the majority of their party.

Result: Agreed to; Vote type: 2/3 YEA-AND-NAY
Yea: 414
Nay: 0
Present: 0; Not voting: 16

May 13, 2026 at 18:46 · Passage

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The measure

The bill or resolution this roll call was on.

H.Res. 1259 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should prioritize securing the release of Pastor Jin Mingri, Pastor Gao Quanfu and his wife Pang Yu, Dr. Gulshan Abbas, and Jimmy Lai detained by the People’s Republic of China during future engagements with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Passed one chamber· Christopher H. Smith (R-NJ-4)· International Affairs· May 13, 2026

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the President should prioritize securing the release of Pastor Jin Mingri, Pastor Gao Quanfu and his wife Pang Yu, Dr. Gulshan Abbas, and Jimmy Lai detained by the People’s Republic of China during future engagements with Chinese President Xi Jinping

Split by party

Yea on the left, nay on the right, scaled to each party's members.

206–0

0–0

208–0

Party	Yea	Not voting
Democrats	206	6
Independents	0	1
Republicans	208	9
Total	414	16

Seat chart

One seat per member, colored by their recorded position; outlined seats voted against their party's majority. Seats are grouped by party and ordered by DW-NOMINATE (Analisa's layout: House members have no assigned seats).

Yea 414Not voting 16Voted against their party

Voted against their party

Members who voted yea or nay against most of their party's voting members.

Every voting member sided with their party's majority.

How each member voted

Recorded positions, by party and then position. Highlighted names voted against the majority of their party's voting members.

Democrats · 212

Yea · 206

Not voting · 6

Independents · 1

Not voting · 1

Kevin KileyI-CA-3

Republicans · 217

Yea · 208

Not voting · 9

Sources and method

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House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)

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