Number: RL34570
Title: Record Voting in the House of Representatives: Issues and Options
Authors: Michael L. Koempel, Jacob R. Straus, and Judy Schneider, Government and Finance Division 
Abstract: The different forms of voting available in the House and the Committee of the Whole - voice, division, and record3 - and the procedures for obtaining these votes are succinctly explained in Appendix B. The constitutional provisions and rules of the 110th Congress pertinent to voting, and the Speaker's policy in the 110th Congress on voting by electronic device, appear in Appendix A. Points of order and parliamentary inquiries pertinent to voting in the 110th Congress, through May 2008, appear in Appendices C and D, respectively. (The parliamentarian's notes in the Constitution, Jefferson's Manual and Rules of the House of Representatives of the United States regularly cite practices and actions that established precedent, in addition to citing rulings on points of order and responses to parliamentary inquiries. This document is published early in the first session of each Congress, to incorporate rules changes and to update the parliamentarian's notes.) This report is divided by first-level headings into sections. The sections are divided into parts. Cross references within the report will therefore refer to another section or to another part.
Pages: 158
Date: July 3, 2008