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THAT THE HOUSE RESOLVE ITSELF INTO THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R. 9719, TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN PAYMENTS TO BE MADE TO STATE OR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS BY THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR BASED UPON THE AMOUNT OF CERTAIN PUBLIC LANDS WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF SUCH STATE OR LOCALITY.

Date:

Aug 5, 1976

Number:

House Vote #1073
94th Congress

Result:

unknown

Source:

Professor Keith Poole

Track Votes
Totals     Democrat     Republican
  Yea 381
 
 
88%
248 133
  Nay 1
 
 
0%
0 1
Not Voting 49
 
 
11%
38 11
Required: unknown

Vote Details

Notes: The Speaker’s Vote?
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. (See House Rules, Rule I(7).)
“Aye” or “Yea”?

“Aye” and “Yea” mean the same thing, and so do “No” and “Nay”. Congress uses different words in different sorts of votes.

The U.S. Constitution says that bills should be decided on by the “yeas and nays” (Article I, Section 7). Congress takes this literally and uses “yea” and “nay” when voting on the final passage of bills.

All Senate votes use these words. But the House of Representatives uses “Aye” and “No” in other sorts of votes.