TO CONCUR IN THE SENATE AMENDMENT TO THE HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION FOR THE MORE EFFECTUAL PROTECTION OF THE SOUTHWESTERN FRONTIER SETTLERS; AMENDMENT TO STRIKE OUT THE PROVISION FOR THE PRESIDENT TO CALL OUT STATE MILITA AGAINST THE INDIANS, AND TO SUBSTITUTE A PROVISION TO AUTHORIZE AN ADDITIONAL REGIMENT OF INFANTRY.

Number:
House Vote #53 [primary source: Professor Keith Poole]
Date:
Jun 06, 1794 (3rd Congress)
Result:
unknown
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Totals     None     Federalist     Republican     Democratic Republican     Anti-Administration     Anti-administration
  Aye 26
 
 
 
 
 
 
25%
8 18 0 0 0 0
  Nay 42
 
 
 
 
 
 
40%
13 3 17 6 3 0
Not Voting 37
 
 
 
 
 
 
35%
18 6 9 2 1 1
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.)