TO AMEND H. R. 13658, BY APPROPRIATING $2,500,000 FOR THE RESETTLEMENT OF ACCOUNTS OF NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, VIRGINIA SOUTH CAROLINA, AND THE CITY OF BALTIMORE IN THE WAR OF 1812 AND 1815, WITH GREAT BRITAIN.

Number:
Senate Vote #520 [primary source: Professor Keith Poole]
Date:
Mar 03, 1891 (51st Congress)
Result:
unknown
Totals     Republican     Democrat     Unknown
  Aye 28
 
 
 
33%
8 20 0
  Nay 22
 
 
 
26%
22 0 0
Not Voting 36
 
 
 
42%
20 15 1
Required: unknown

Vote Details

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.)