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  • Mr. Vance and Mr. Hiester called the Yeas and Nays; and, on the question being put, the Members voted as follow, io wii:

    Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate 1791

  • And by law anyone who secures the "Yeas" of a majority of Senators voting will be confirmed.

    Richard Greener: A Right-Wing Court? The Democrats Fault 2010

  • April 25: Interesting - even heated - debate over at the Navy, Army, Air Force Forum, where the "Yeas" have it by a two-thirds majority.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • April 25: Interesting - even heated - debate over at the Navy, Army, Air Force Forum, where the "Yeas" have it by a two-thirds majority.

    Petition to reinstate the RCN and RCAF 2007

  • CHENEY: The "Yeas" are 50, the "Nays" are 50, the Senate, being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative, and the amendment is agreed to.

    CNN Transcript Apr 27, 2001 2001

  • It lasted long; and it ended in the slow and difficult triumph, the final ascendency of the "Yeas" of Life over the "Nays," which in truth his character secured.

    The Case of Richard Meynell Humphry Ward 1885

  • House Democrats draw closer to having votes for health care bill Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives continued scouring for votes Friday among reluctant anti-abortion and conservative Democrats in search of enough "Yeas" to triumph in Sunday's historic vote on a $940 billion health care overhaul - and they appeared tantalizingly close to their goal.

    Observer: Home Page 2010

  • House Democrats draw closer to having votes for health care bill Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives continued scouring for votes Friday among reluctant anti-abortion and conservative Democrats in search of enough "Yeas" to triumph in Sunday's historic vote on a $940 billion health care overhaul - and they appeared tantalizingly close to their goal.

    Observer: Home Page 2010

  • "Yeas" to triumph in Sunday's historic vote on a $940 billion health care overhaul - and they appeared tantalizingly close to their goal.

    TheState.com: The Buzz 2010

  • House Democrats draw closer to having votes for health care bill Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives continued scouring for votes Friday among reluctant anti-abortion and conservative Democrats in search of enough "Yeas" to triumph in Sunday's historic vote on a $940 billion health care overhaul - and they appeared tantalizingly close to their goal.

    Observer: Home Page 2010

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