You also have the option of viewing roll call votes from past sessions of Congress. The U. Features a six column table. The first column Roll has the roll call vote number. The second column Date has the date of the vote. The third column Issue has the bill number that the vote related to. The fourth column Question has the specific motion being voted on. The fifth column Result indicates if the vote passed P , was agreed to A , or failed F. The far left column labeled "Roll" will give you the number of the roll call vote.
Moving to the column on the right, you see the date the vote was cast. The "Question" tells you if the vote was on final passage, on an amendment, or as otherwise noted. All votes are posted in reverse chronological order most recent at the top. If it is an older vote that you are interested in must be in the same year , move to the bottom of the screen and simply click on a previous set of roll call votes.
The Electoral College consists of electors. A majority of electoral votes is required to elect the President. Your State has the same number of electors as it does Members in its Congressional delegation: one for each Member in the House of Representatives plus two Senators. Read more about the allocation of electoral votes. The District of Columbia is allocated 3 electors and treated like a State for purposes of the Electoral College under the 23rd Amendment of the Constitution.
Each candidate running for President in your State has his or her own group of electors known as a slate. Read more about the qualifications of the electors and restrictions on who the electors may vote for. Voting present in this case was a legislative tactic. As one expert pointed out, sometimes the majority party relies on the minority party to either ensure a measure fails or succeeds.
When the minority votes present en masse, they are forcing the majority party leadership to work extra hard to round up enough votes to guarantee their desired outcome.
The Republicans could have avoided all this by resorting to royalty. There are two procedural tools the majority often uses know as the King and Queen of the Hill. These are special rules that give the majority greater control over possible outcomes. Normally when a substitute amendment replaces a bill, no further amendments are allowed. That would have been the case had the RSC Budget passed. But, a King of the Hill special rule issued by the Rules Committee allows votes on multiple substitutes with the stipulation that the last one to pass trumps all the others.
Of course the substitute preferred by the majority party is positioned to be the final substitute voted on. For instance, had the RSC Budget passed, it would not have mattered as long as the Ryan budget received a majority of votes at the end.
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