TO TABLE THE REPORT OF THE CONFERENCE COMMITTEE ON H.R. 28766, (37 STAT. 866, 3-4-13), A BILL TO LIMIT THE COST OF CERTAIN BUILDING TO AUTHORIZE THE EMPLOYMENT, EXTENSION, REMODELLING AND IMPROVEMENT OF CERTAIN PUBLIC BUILDINGS, TO AUTHORIZE THE ERECTION AND COMPLETION OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS, TO AUTHORIZE THE PURCHASE OF SITES FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES. (P. 4695-2)

Number:
Senate Vote #395 [primary source: Professor Keith Poole]
Date:
Mar 03, 1913 (62nd Congress)
Result:
unknown
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Totals     Republican     Democrat     Unknown
  Aye 17
 
 
 
18%
8 8 1
  Nay 46
 
 
 
48%
25 18 3
Not Voting 32
 
 
 
34%
16 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.)