TO PROCEED TO CONSIDERATION OF EXECUTIVE BUSINESS AND SET ASIDE S. J. RES. 134, PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTI- TUTION PROVIDING FOR THE ELECTION OF SENATORS BY DIRECT VOTE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE SEVERAL STATES. (P.1898-1)

Number:
Senate Vote #262 [primary source: Professor Keith Poole]
Date:
Mar 03, 1911 (61st Congress)
Result:
unknown
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Totals     Republican     Democrat     Unknown
  Aye 36
 
 
 
40%
36 0 0
  Nay 40
 
 
 
44%
16 23 1
Not Voting 15
 
 
 
16%
7 8 0
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.)