TO AGREE AS IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE, TO THE AMENDMENT TO H. R. 2250 (36 STAT. L. 822, APP. 6/25/1910), A BILL PROVI- DING FOR PUBLICITY OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS, WHICH AMEND- MENT PROVIDES THAT THE TREASURER OF EVERY POLITICAL COMMIT- TEE SHALL WITHIN 30 DAYS AFTER ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES OF CONGRESS IN TWO OR MORE STATES, FILE WITH THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE, AN ITEMIZED STATEMENT TO BE PRESERVED FOR 15 MON- THS AS PART OF PUBLIC RECORDS AND OPEN FOR PUBLIC INSPEC- TION. (P.8753-1)

Number:
Senate Vote #212 [primary source: Professor Keith Poole]
Date:
Jun 22, 1910 (61st Congress)
Result:
unknown
Totals     Republican     Democrat
  Aye 37
 
 
40%
37 0
  Nay 30
 
 
33%
9 21
Not Voting 25
 
 
27%
13 12
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.)