To table a resolution providing that debate on H.J. RES. 5 shall cease on feb. 9, at 2:30 p.m. (p. 294-2)

On Feb 2, 1846, the House voted 99–88. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 33–84, Others 66–4. 33 members voted against their own party.

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

Yes: 99
No: 88
Did not vote: 50
Date: Feb 2, 1846

By party

Democrats33 yes · 84 no · 32 didn’t vote
Others66 yes · 4 no · 18 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Edmund Strother Dargan D-AL voted yes
William Lowndes Yancey D-AL voted yes
William Winter Payne D-AL voted yes
Reuben Chapman D-AL voted yes
Seaborn Jones D-GA voted yes
George Washington Bonaparte Towns D-GA voted yes
Robert Smith D-IL voted yes
Orlando Bell Ficklin D-IL voted yes
John Preston Martin D-KY voted yes
Thomas Johns Perry D-MD voted yes
John Smith Phelps D-MO voted yes
Leonard Henly Sims D-MO voted yes
Robert Whyte Roberts D-MS voted yes
Joseph Russell D-NY voted yes
Timothy Jenkins D-NY voted yes
Stephen Strong D-NY voted yes
Francis Alanson Cunningham D-OH voted yes
Isaac Parrish D-OH voted yes
David Austin Starkweather D-OH voted yes
Owen D. Leib D-PA voted yes
David Wilmot D-PA voted yes
Henry Donnel Foster D-PA voted yes
James Thompson D-PA voted yes
Richard Franklin Simpson D-SC voted yes
Joseph Addison Woodward D-SC voted yes
Robert Barnwell Rhett D-SC voted yes
William Marshall Tredway D-VA voted yes
Edmund Wilcox Hubard D-VA voted yes
Shelton Farrar Leake D-VA voted yes
Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA voted yes
Henry Bedinger D-VA voted yes
Augustus Alexandria Chapman D-VA voted yes
George Washington Hopkins 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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