1、Congressional Research Service ? The Library of CongressCRS Report for CongressReceived through the CRS WebOrder Code 98-970 GOVUpdated March 8, 2001Pairing in Congressional Voting: The HouseRichard C. SachsSpecialist in American National GovernmentGovernment and Finance DivisionUnder Rule XX, claus
2、e 3, the practice of “pairing” involves under certainprocedural circumstances a Member who is absent during a vote on the House floorarranging with a Member on the opposite side of a specific question who is present duringa vote to announce that the Member who is present is forming a “pair” with the
3、 absentMember, thus allowing the absent Member to have recorded how he would have voted hadhe been present. This particular type of pair, where one Member is absent and the otherpresent for the vote, was in the past referred to as a “live pair,” although the term nolonger appears in House Rules.Prio
4、r to a rules change in 1999 at the start of the 106th Congress, the Houserecognized, in addition to a live pair, two other types of pairs. In a “specific pair,”alsocalled a “special” or “dead” pair,” both Members were absent, but they made theirpositions on a vote known beforehand and their names we
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