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The resolution improves transparency and standardizes pairing for House votes but does so at the cost of added administrative work for Clerk staff and reduced flexibility for members who use repeated pairings in a single day.
House members and the public gain a standardized process for requesting and recording paired votes, and paired-vote statements are entered into the public record immediately after not-voting names, improving transparency about who is paired and why.
Members who rely on repeated pairing for multiple votes in a single day lose flexibility because any particular pairing can be announced only once per legislative day, constraining scheduling and member accommodations.
The Clerk's office and its staff will face increased administrative burden to collect signed pairing lists, make timely announcements on the floor, and publish those lists in the Congressional Record.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires the Clerk to announce and publish signed written pairing requests immediately before vote results and limits repeat announcements to once per legislative day.
Introduced April 7, 2025 by Anna Luna · Last progress April 8, 2025
Requires the Clerk of the House to announce and publish certain written requests for “pairs” immediately before the presiding officer announces the result of a vote in the House or Committee of the Whole during the 119th Congress. Those written pairing requests must be signed by the Member making the statement, entered on a furnished list, and published in the Congressional Record right after the names of Members not voting; the same pair may be announced only once per legislative day.