TO READ THE SECOND TIME THE HOUSE BILL, CARRYING INTO EFFECT THE CONVENTION BETWEEN THE U.S. AND FRANCE, ENTERED INTO FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEFINING AND ESTABLISHING THE FUNCTIONS AND PRIVILEGES OF THEIR RESPECTIVE, CONSULS, MOTION DEFEATED, BECAUSE THE RULE REQUIRES UNANIMOUS, CONSENT IN ORDER THAT A BILL MAY BE READ TWICE ON THE SAME DAY.

Number:: Senate Vote #100 [primary source: Professor Keith Poole]
Date:: Mar 03, 1791 (1^st Congress)
Result:: unknown

	Totals		Pro-Administration	Anti-Administration	Federalist	Democratic Republican
Aye	13	50%	7	4	1	1
Nay	6	23%	4	1	1	0
Not Voting	7	27%	3	2	1	1
Required:	unknown

Vote Details

Vote	Party	Representative	State
Aye	Anti-Administration	Lee, Richard	VA
Aye	Anti-Administration	Maclay, William	PA
Aye	Anti-Administration	Monroe, James	VA
Aye	Anti-Administration	Stanton, Joseph	RI
Aye	D	Langdon, John	NH
Aye	Federalist	Foster, Theodore	RI
Aye	Pro-Administration	Dalton, Tristram	MA
Aye	Pro-Administration	Hawkins, Benjamin	NC
Aye	Pro-Administration	Henry, John	MD
Aye	Pro-Administration	Johnston, Samuel	NC
Aye	Pro-Administration	Carroll, Charles	MD
Aye	Pro-Administration	Strong, Caleb	MA
Aye	Pro-Administration	Izard, Ralph	SC
Nay	Anti-Administration	Bassett, Richard	DE
Nay	Federalist	King, Rufus	NY
Nay	Pro-Administration	Johnson, William	CT
Nay	Pro-Administration	Morris, Robert	PA
Nay	Pro-Administration	Ellsworth, Oliver	CT
Nay	Pro-Administration	Schuyler, Philip	NY
No Vote	Anti-Administration	Few, William	GA
No Vote	Anti-Administration	Wingate, Paine	NH
No Vote	D	Butler, Pierce	SC
No Vote	Federalist	Gunn, James	GA
No Vote	Pro-Administration	Dickinson, Philemon	NJ
No Vote	Pro-Administration	Read, George	DE
No Vote	Pro-Administration	Elmer, Jonathan	NJ

Notes

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.)