Thumbs-down Senate votes

Usage examples of nays.

The same bitter war over the sum to be paid was fought over again, and now that the ayes and nays could be called and placed on record, every man was compelled to vote by name on the three millions, and indeed on every paragraph of the bill from the enacting clause straight through.

The bill was put upon its final passage almost without dissent, and the calling of the ayes and nays began.