Types of Problems at Nursing Homes. Some issues within a nursing home are much more severe than others. Medicare evaluates each problem based on 2 scales: the number of residents affected by a problem and the severity of the potential or actual harm to residents based on the problem.
House of Representatives. The House may use either of the methods used by the Senate, though roll-call votes are rare. Alternately, the House of Representatives may take a standing division vote or a recorded vote. Generally, the Speaker of the House chooses the voting method, though votes must be by the recorded method if one-fifth of Congress requests it. In a division vote, the ayes and noes are asked to stand.
If there is no vice president, either because he is not present in the Senate or because the office is actually vacant, then a tied vote in the Senate just fails. There have only been 244 ties in U.S. history, so this doesnât come up that often, and itâs become less and less common over time. (The vice president with the most tie-breaking votes was John Adams, the first holder of the office). Joe Biden, for example, has not cast a single tie-breaking vote. Filibuster rules require most Senate votes to pass with at least 60 members voting in favor, so a vote with the potential to result in a 50â50 tie is actually likely to fail to receive cloture in the first place.