Senate roll call 120 · 28th Congress · May 29, 1844
To recommit with instructions S. 103 in order to consider limiting all contracts and expenditures to the sums appropriated.
On May 29, 1844, the Senate voted 10–22 (S 103). Result: failed. By party: Others 1–18, Democrats 9–4. 4 members voted against their own party.
During the 28th Congress (1843–1844), John Tyler was president.
- Yes
- 10
- No
- 22
- Did not vote
- 26
- Date
- May 29, 1844
By party
- Democrats9 yes · 4 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 18 no · 11 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Sidney Breese D-IL voted no
- Benjamin Tappan D-OH voted no
- Daniel Sturgeon D-PA voted no
- James Buchanan D-PA voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- Arthur Pendleton Bagby D-AL
- John Milton Niles D-CT
- James Semple D-IL
- Henry Johnson O-LA
- John Fairfield D-ME
- Thomas Hart Benton D-MO
- William Henry Haywood Jr. D-NC
- Charles Gordon Atherton D-NH
- Levi Woodbury D-NH
- Daniel Elliott Huger D-SC
How each senator voted: No
- Thomas Clayton O-DE
- Sidney Breese D-IL
- Albert Smith White O-IN
- James Turner Morehead O-KY
- John Jordan Crittenden O-KY
- Isaac Chapman Bates O-MA
- Rufus Choate O-MA
- James Alfred Pearce O-MD
- William Duhurst Merrick O-MD
- George Evans O-ME
- Augustus Seymour Porter O-MI
- William Woodbridge O-MI
- William Lewis Dayton O-NJ
- Nathaniel Pitcher Tallmadge O-NY
- Benjamin Tappan D-OH
- Daniel Sturgeon D-PA
- James Buchanan D-PA
- James Fowler Simmons O-RI
- John Brown Francis O-RI
- Spencer Jarnagin O-TN
- Samuel Shethar Phelps O-VT
- William Upham O-VT
Did not vote
- Dixon Hall Lewis D-AL
- William Rufus de Vane King D-AL
- Ambrose Hundley Sevier D-AR
- Chester Ashley D-AR
- William Savin Fulton D-AR
- Jabez Williams Huntington O-CT
- Richard Henry Bayard O-DE
- John Macpherson Berrien O-GA
- Walter Terry Colquitt D-GA
- Edward Allen Hannegan D-IN
- Alexander Barrow O-LA
- David Rice Atchison D-MO
- John Henderson O-MS
- Robert John Walker D-MS
- Willie Person Mangum O-NC
- Jacob Welsh Miller O-NJ
- Daniel Stevens Dickinson D-NY
- Henry Allen Foster D-NY
- John Adams Dix D-NY
- Silas Wright Jr. D-NY
- William Allen D-OH
- William Sprague O-RI
- George Mcduffie D-SC
- Ephraim Hubbard Foster O-TN
- William Cabell Rives O-VA
- William Segar Archer O-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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