TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PROCEED TO CONSIDER THE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE PRESIDENT TO PROSECUTE NEGOTIATIONS WITH FOREIGN POWERS FOR THE ABOLITION OF AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE.

Number:
House Vote #272 [primary source: Professor Keith Poole]
Date:
Mar 03, 1831 (21st Congress)
Result:
unknown
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Totals     Jackson     None     Whig     Anti Jacksonian     Anti Masonic     Republican     Anti Mason     Federalist     Adams Democrat     Anti-Jacksonian
  Aye 108
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
51%
53 23 16 2 5 4 2 1 1 1
  Nay 36
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17%
36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Not Voting 68
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
32%
46 15 1 5 0 1 0 0 0 0
Required: unknown

Vote Details

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.)