CONFERENCE REPORT ON H.R. 2968, TO RECEDE FROM DISAGREEMENT TO SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 33 AND TO CONCUR THERE- IN WITH AN AMENDMENT. SENATE AMENDMENT NO.33 CONCERNS SENATE APPROVAL OR PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS TO POSITIONS OVER $4,500 PER YEAR. THE HOUSE AMENDMENT RAISE THE SALARY LIMIT TO $5,500 TO REQUIRE SENATE APPROVAL, AND ALLOWS PERSONS APPOINTED BETWEEN JUNE 30, 1943 AND NOV. 1, 1943 TO HOLD OFFICE UNTIL THE LATTER DATE UNLESS THE SENATE, IN THE INTERIM REFUSES TO CONSENT TO THE APPOINTMENT.

Number:
House Vote #77 [primary source: Professor Keith Poole]
Date:
Jul 08, 1943 (78th Congress)
Result:
unknown
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Totals     Democrat     Republican     Progressive     American Labor     Farmer-Labor     Unknown
  Aye 69
 
 
 
 
 
 
16%
25 44 0 0 0 0
  Nay 260
 
 
 
 
 
 
61%
134 123 1 1 1 0
Present 78
 
 
 
 
 
 
18%
38 38 1 0 0 1
Not Voting 17
 
 
 
 
 
 
4%
15 2 0 0 0 0
Required: unknown

Vote Details

Notes

Where is the Speaker’s vote?

According to current House rules, the Speaker of the House is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings, except when such vote would be decisive.” In practice, this means the Speaker of the House rarely votes and only does so when it is politically useful. When the Speaker declines to vote, he or she is simply omitted from the roll call by the House Clerk.

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.)