House roll call 112 · 75th Congress · Mar 11, 1938
To recommit H. R. 9682, (p. A. 554), to committee on ways and means with instructions to do away entirely with the undistributed surplus tax (p. 2994, col. 2),
On Mar 11, 1938, the House voted 94–291 (HR 9682). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 14–281, Republicans 86–4, Others 0–13. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 18 members voted against their own party.
During the 75th Congress (1937–1938), Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 94
- No
- 291
- Did not vote
- 20
- Date
- Mar 11, 1938
By party
- Democrats14 yes · 281 no · 17 didn’t vote
- Republicans86 yes · 4 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 13 no
Who broke with their party
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted no
- John Martin Costello D-CA voted yes
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT voted yes
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted yes
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- William Lemke R-ND voted no
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted no
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ voted yes
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ voted yes
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ voted yes
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted yes
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY voted yes
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY voted yes
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH voted yes
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted yes
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH voted yes
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH voted yes
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Robert Luce R-MA
- George Holden Tinkham R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- George Nicholas Seger R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Ernest Harold Cluett R-NY
- Frank Crowther R-NY
- Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- Bert Lord R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Albert Greig Rutherford R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- John William Ditter R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
How each representative voted: No
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Newt Virgus Mills D-LA
- John Keller Griffith D-LA
- René Louis De Rouen D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Henry George Teigan O-MN
- Dewey William Johnson O-MN
- Paul John Kvale O-MN
- John Toussaint Bernard O-MN
- Richard Thompson Buckler O-MN
- Milton Andrew Romjue D-MO
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Wall Doxey D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Aaron Lane Ford D-MS
- Ross Alexander Collins D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Henry Carl Luckey D-NE
- Charles Francis Mclaughlin D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Charles Gustav Binderup D-NE
- Harry Buffington Coffee D-NE
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- James Graves Scrugham D-NV
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Richard Merrill Atkinson D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Monrad Charles Wallgren D-WA
- Martin Fernard Smith D-WA
- Knute Hill D-WA
- Charles Henry Leavy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Thomas Ryum Amlie O-WI
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Gerald John Boileau O-WI
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- Robert Louis Mouton D-LA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
Did not vote
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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