To suspend the rules and consider a resolution providing for the printing of all testimony accompanying the report of the select committee appointed to investig

On Jun 19, 1846, the House voted 58–77. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 58–22, Others 0–55. 22 members voted against their own party.

During the 29th Congress (1845–1846), James K. Polk was president.

Yes: 58
No: 77
Did not vote: 102
Date: Jun 19, 1846

By party

Democrats58 yes · 22 no · 69 didn’t vote
Others0 yes · 55 no · 33 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Edmund Strother Dargan D-AL voted no
William Lowndes Yancey D-AL voted no
George Washington Bonaparte Towns D-GA voted no
Thomas Johns Perry D-MD voted no
Thomas Watkins Ligon D-MD voted no
Leonard Henly Sims D-MO voted no
Stephen Adams D-MS voted no
James Cochrane Dobbin D-NC voted no
James Iver Mckay D-NC voted no
Asa Biggs D-NC voted no
Charles Goodyear D-NY voted no
Horace Wheaton D-NY voted no
Samuel Stewart Ellsworth D-NY voted no
Richard Brodhead D-PA voted no
Owen D. Leib D-PA voted no
Richard Franklin Simpson D-SC voted no
Joseph Addison Woodward D-SC voted no
Armistead Burt D-SC voted no
George Washington Jones D-TN voted no
William Marshall Tredway D-VA voted no
Shelton Farrar Leake D-VA voted no
James Alexander Seddon D-VA voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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