Senate roll call 183 · 69th Congress · Feb 2, 1927
To amend H.R. 11768, by requiring municipal health departments having a field force of milk inspectors to issue certified statements that the provisions of the
On Feb 2, 1927, the Senate voted 27–41 (HR 11768). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 1–39, Democrats 26–2. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 3 members voted against their own party.
During the 69th Congress (1925–1926), Calvin Coolidge was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 27
- No
- 41
- Did not vote
- 37
- Date
- Feb 2, 1927
By party
- Democrats26 yes · 2 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Republicans1 yes · 39 no · 21 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Cabell Bruce D-MD voted no
- James Couzens R-MI voted yes
- John Benjamin Kendrick D-WY voted no
How each senator voted: Yes
- James Thomas Heflin D-AL
- Joseph Taylor Robinson D-AR
- Thaddeus Horatius Caraway D-AR
- Henry Fountain Ashurst D-AZ
- Thomas Francis Bayard Jr. D-DE
- Duncan Upshaw Fletcher D-FL
- Park Trammell D-FL
- Walter Franklin George D-GA
- William Julius Harris D-GA
- Daniel Frederic Steck D-IA
- Edwin Sidney Broussard D-LA
- David Ignatius Walsh D-MA
- James Couzens R-MI
- Woodbridge Nathan Ferris D-MI
- Byron Patton (Pat) Harrison D-MS
- Burton Kendall Wheeler D-MT
- Lee Slater Overman D-NC
- Sam Gilbert Bratton D-NM
- Royal Samuel Copeland D-NY
- Peter Goelet Gerry D-RI
- Ellison DuRant Smith D-SC
- Kenneth Douglas Mckellar D-TN
- Earle Bradford Mayfield D-TX
- Morris Sheppard D-TX
- William Henry King D-UT
- Carter Glass D-VA
- Clarence Cleveland Dill D-WA
How each senator voted: No
- Ralph Henry Cameron R-AZ
- Samuel Morgan Shortridge R-CA
- Lawrence Cowle Phipps R-CO
- Rice William Means R-CO
- George Payne Mclean R-CT
- Hiram Bingham R-CT
- David Wallace Stewart R-IA
- Frank Robert Gooding R-ID
- William Edgar Borah R-ID
- Charles Samuel Deneen R-IL
- Arthur Raymond Robinson R-IN
- James Eli Watson R-IN
- Arthur Capper R-KS
- Charles Curtis R-KS
- Frederic Mosley Sackett R-KY
- William Cabell Bruce D-MD
- Frederick Hale R-ME
- Thomas David Schall R-MN
- Gerald Prentice Nye R-ND
- Lynn Joseph Frazier R-ND
- George Higgins Moses R-NH
- Henry Wilder Keyes R-NH
- Walter Evans Edge R-NJ
- Tasker Lowndes Oddie R-NV
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Frank Bartlett Willis R-OH
- Simeon Davison Fess R-OH
- Charles Linza Mcnary R-OR
- David Aiken Reed R-PA
- George Wharton Pepper R-PA
- Jesse Houghton Metcalf R-RI
- Peter Norbeck R-SD
- William Henry Mcmaster R-SD
- Reed Smoot R-UT
- Porter Hinman Dale R-VT
- Wesley Livsey Jones R-WA
- Irvine Luther Lenroot R-WI
- Robert Marion La Follette Jr. R-WI
- Guy Despard Goff R-WV
- Francis Emroy Warren R-WY
- John Benjamin Kendrick D-WY
Did not vote
- Oscar Wilder Underwood D-AL
- Hiram Warren Johnson R-CA
- Thomas Coleman Du Pont R-DE
- Albert Baird Cummins R-IA
- Smith Wildman Brookhart R-IA
- William Brown Mckinley R-IL
- Samuel Moffett Ralston D-IN
- Richard Pretlow Ernst R-KY
- Joseph Eugene Ransdell D-LA
- Frederick Huntington Gillett R-MA
- William Morgan Butler R-MA
- Ovington Eugene Weller R-MD
- Arthur Robinson Gould R-ME
- Bert Manfred Fernald R-ME
- Henrik Shipstead O-MN
- George Howard Williams R-MO
- Harry Bartow Hawes D-MO
- James Alexander Reed D-MO
- Selden Palmer Spencer R-MO
- Hubert Durrett Stephens D-MS
- Thomas James Walsh D-MT
- Furnifold McLendel Simmons D-NC
- Edwin Fremont Ladd R-ND
- George William Norris R-NE
- Robert Beecher Howell R-NE
- Edward Irving Edwards D-NJ
- Andrieus Aristieus Jones D-NM
- Key Pittman D-NV
- John William Harreld R-OK
- William Bliss Pine R-OK
- Robert Nelson Stanfield R-OR
- Coleman Livingston Blease D-SC
- Lawrence Davis Tyson D-TN
- Claude Augustus Swanson D-VA
- Frank Lester Greene R-VT
- Robert Marion La Follette R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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