Paying The Piper-Part Two-Dominican Republic-Central America-US Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act

This agreement was approved and passed the US House of Representatives on July 28, 2005. The vote was:
217 YES (202 Republicans-15 Democrats) vs. 215 NO (187 Democrats-27 Republicans-1 Independent)-2 Not Voting (both Republicans).

The vote in the US Senate, also on July 28, 2005:
55 YES (43 Republicans-11 Democrats-1 Independent) vs. 45 NO (34 Democrats-11 Republicans).

Signed into law by President George W. Bush on August 2, 2005.

WORD HISTORY:
Yes-This goes back to Old English "gese," which is assumed by many linguists to be a compound of "gea," the ancestor of "Yea," and "se/si," which was the third person subjunctive or imperative (I found differing info), which was a form of "be" in Old English; thus giving us the idea of "yea, may it be so," or "yea, so be it." "Yea" goes back to Indo European "ye," which then gave Old Germanic "ja." "Yea" and "yes" are closely related to the affirmative words in other Germanic languages: German has "ja" (pronounced "ya," with the "j" pronounced as "y," and the "a" as the "a" in father), Icelandic has "já," Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish all have "ja."