TO AMEND THE RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE TO HOLD THE NEXT SESSION OF CONGRESS IN PHILADELPHIA OR BALTIMORE.

Number:: House Vote #51 [primary source: Professor Keith Poole]
Date:: May 31, 1790 (1^st Congress)
Result:: unknown

	Totals		None	Federalist	Republican	Democratic Republican	Pro-Administration	Pro-administration
Aye	22	34%	16	4	2	0	0	0
Nay	38	58%	18	11	4	3	2	0
Not Voting	5	8%	2	1	1	0	0	1
Required:	unknown

Vote Details

Vote	Party	Representative	District
Aye	None	Seney, Joshua	MD 2^nd
Aye	None	Burke, Aedanus	SC 2^nd
Aye	None	Bloodworth, Timothy	NC 3^rd
Aye	None	Partridge, George	MA 5^th
Aye	None	Tucker, Thomas	SC 5^th
Aye	None	Van Rensselaer, Jeremiah	NY 6^th
Aye	None	Grout, Jonathan	MA 8^th
Aye	None	Huger, Daniel	SC 3^rd
Aye	None	Laurance, John	NY 2^nd
Aye	None	Floyd, William	NY 1^st
Aye	None	Gerry, Elbridge	MA 3^rd
Aye	None	Silvester, Peter	NY 5^th
Aye	None	Smith, William	MD 4^th
Aye	None	Stone, Michael	MD 1^st
Aye	None	Sturges, Jonathan	CT
Aye	None	Sumter, Thomas	SC 4^th
Aye	Federalist	Benson, Egbert	NY 3^rd
Aye	Federalist	Smith, William	SC 1^st
Aye	Federalist	Thatcher, George	MA 6^th
Aye	Federalist	Trumbull, Jonathan	CT
Aye	R	Hathorn, John	NY 4^th
Aye	R	Jackson, James	GA 1^st
Nay	None	Brown, John	KY
Nay	None	Boudinot, Elias	NJ
Nay	None	Ashe, John	NC 1^st
Nay	None	Mathews, George	GA 3^rd
Nay	None	Muhlenberg, John	PA
Nay	None	Scott, Thomas	PA
Nay	None	White, Alexander	VA 1^st
Nay	None	Wynkoop, Henry	PA
Nay	None	Cadwalader, Lambert	NJ
Nay	None	Clymer, George	PA
Nay	None	Carroll, Daniel	MD 6^th
Nay	None	Huntington, Benjamin	CT
Nay	None	Lee, Richard	VA 4^th
Nay	None	Griffin, Samuel	VA 10^th
Nay	None	Contee, Benjamin	MD 3^rd
Nay	None	Fitzsimons, Thomas	PA
Nay	None	Gale, George	MD 5^th
Nay	None	Steele, John	NC 4^th
Nay	D	Baldwin, Abraham	GA 2^nd
Nay	D	Moore, Andrew	VA 3^rd
Nay	D	Gilman, Nicholas	NH
Nay	Federalist	Sedgwick, Theodore	MA 4^th
Nay	Federalist	Ames, Fisher	MA 1^st
Nay	Federalist	Parker, Josiah	VA 8^th
Nay	Federalist	Schureman, James	NJ
Nay	Federalist	Williamson, Hugh	NC 2^nd
Nay	Federalist	Hartley, Thomas	PA
Nay	Federalist	Leonard, George	MA 7^th
Nay	Federalist	Livermore, Samuel	NH
Nay	Federalist	Goodhue, Benjamin	MA 2^nd
Nay	Federalist	Foster, Abiel	NH
Nay	Federalist	Sinnickson, Thomas	NJ
Nay	Pro-Administration	Vining, John	DE
Nay	Pro-Administration	Sherman, Roger	CT
Nay	R	Madison, James	VA 5^th
Nay	R	Page, John	VA 7^th
Nay	R	Hiester, Daniel	PA
Nay	R	Coles, Isaac	VA 6^th
No Vote	None	Bland, Theodorick	VA 9^th
No Vote	None	Wadsworth, Jeremiah	CT
No Vote	Federalist	Bourne, Benjamin	RI 1^st
No Vote	Pro-administration	Muhlenberg, Frederick	PA
No Vote	R	Sevier, John	NC 5^th

Notes

Where is the Speaker’s vote?

According to current House rules, the Speaker of the House is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings, except when such vote would be decisive.” In practice, this means the Speaker of the House rarely votes and only does so when it is politically useful. When the Speaker declines to vote, he or she is simply omitted from the roll call by the House Clerk.

What’s the difference between aye and yea?

There is no meaningful difference between aye and yea (and nay and no), but the terms are used in different sorts of votes based on Congress’s long tradition of parliamentary procedure. The House and Senate follow the U.S. Constitution strictly when it says that bills should be decided on by the “yeas and nays” (Article I, Section 7). The House sometimes operates under a special set of rules called the “Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union” (or “Committee of the Whole” for short), which is a sort of pseudo-committee that is made up of every congressman. During this mode of operation, the House uses the terms “aye” and “no” instead. (See the Rules of the House, Rule XX, and House Practice in the section Voting.)