TO PASS THE RESOLUTION THAT THE HONORABLE WILLIAM BLOUNT, AND WILLIAM COCKE, WHO HAVE PRODUCED CREDENTIALS OF BEING DULY ELECTED SENATORS FOR THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, BE ADMITTED TO TAKE THE OATH NECESSARY.

Number:: Senate Vote #66 [primary source: Professor Keith Poole]
Date:: Jun 01, 1796 (4^th Congress)
Result:: unknown

	Totals		Federalist	Republican
Aye	10	36%	1	9
Nay	11	39%	11	0
Not Voting	7	25%	6	1
Required:	unknown

Vote Details

Vote	Party	Representative	State
Aye	Federalist	Gunn, James	GA
Aye	R	Butler, Pierce	SC
Aye	R	Brown, John	KY
Aye	R	Burr, Aaron	NY
Aye	R	Bloodworth, Timothy	NC
Aye	R	Tattnall, Josiah	GA
Aye	R	Tazewell, Henry	VA
Aye	R	Langdon, John	NH
Aye	R	Martin, Alexander	NC
Aye	R	Robinson, Moses	VT
Nay	Federalist	Bradford, William	RI
Nay	Federalist	Foster, Theodore	RI
Nay	Federalist	Bingham, William	PA
Nay	Federalist	Ross, James	PA
Nay	Federalist	Rutherfurd, John	NJ
Nay	Federalist	Trumbull, Jonathan	CT
Nay	Federalist	Latimer, Henry	DE
Nay	Federalist	Marshall, Humphrey	KY
Nay	Federalist	Livermore, Samuel	NH
Nay	Federalist	Read, Jacob	SC
Nay	Federalist	Potts, Richard	MD
No Vote	Federalist	Henry, John	MD
No Vote	Federalist	Cabot, George	MA
No Vote	Federalist	Frelinghuysen, Frederick	NJ
No Vote	Federalist	Strong, Caleb	MA
No Vote	Federalist	Vining, John	DE
No Vote	Federalist	Paine, Elijah	VT
No Vote	R	Mason, Stevens	VA

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.)