To adopt a resolution providing for the printing of 10,000 extra copies of the report of MR. Cushing of the committee on foreign affairs relating to british col

On Apr 28, 1842, the House voted 91–69. Result: passed. By party: Others 73–14, Democrats 18–54, Independents 0–1. 18 members voted against their own party.

During the 27th Congress (1841–1842), John Tyler was president.

Yes: 91
No: 69
Did not vote: 96
Date: Apr 28, 1842

By party

Democrats18 yes · 54 no · 33 didn’t vote
Others73 yes · 14 no · 63 didn’t vote
Independents0 yes · 1 no

Who broke with their party

Dixon Hall Lewis D-AL voted yes
Edward Cross D-AR voted yes
William Orlando Butler D-KY voted yes
John Thomson Mason D-MD voted yes
Nathan Clifford D-ME voted yes
Alfred Marshall D-ME voted yes
Archibald Hunter Arrington D-NC voted yes
Joseph Egbert D-NY voted yes
Charles Goadsby Ferris D-NY voted yes
Fernando Wood D-NY voted yes
Lewis Riggs D-NY voted yes
John Hastings D-OH voted yes
Charles Jared Ingersoll D-PA voted yes
Peter Newhard D-PA voted yes
Benjamin Alden Bidlack D-PA voted yes
Almon Heath Read D-PA voted yes
Sampson Hale Butler D-SC voted yes
Edmund Wilcox Hubard D-VA voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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