Sponsor
Anna Luna
Representative · R-FL
Representative · R-FL
The resolution standardizes and increases transparency around pairing in House votes, but it imposes extra administrative work on House staff and limits some members' ability to reuse pairings during a single legislative day.
House members will have a clearer, standardized process for recording and announcing pairing requests, reducing ambiguity during votes.
The public (taxpayers) will see paired voting statements immediately after not-voting names in the Congressional Record, increasing transparency about who is paired and why.
Clerk's office staff will face increased administrative workload to collect signed pairing lists, make prompt announcements, and publish those lists in the Record.
Members who rely on multiple pairings in a single legislative day will have reduced flexibility because any particular pair can be announced only once per day.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Sets timing and publication requirements for announcing and recording paired-vote requests on a signed written list, and limits each pair to one announcement per legislative day.
Official title: Providing for the announcement of pairs from a written list furnished to the Clerk, and for other purposes.
Introduced April 7, 2025 by Anna Luna · Last progress April 8, 2025
Requires the Clerk to announce requests for pairs immediately before the Chair announces the result of a House or Committee of the Whole vote when the pair appears on a written list signed by the Member who made the statement. The written list must be published in the Congressional Record right after the names of those not voting, and any specific pair may be announced only once during the same legislative day.