House roll call 73 · 75th Congress · Jul 22, 1937
To concur in Senate amendment no. 90 to H. R. 6958. Amendment no. 90 provides that no construction shall begin at the colorado-big thompson project until repaym
On Jul 22, 1937, the House voted 174–154 (HR 6958). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 169–88, Republicans 9–73, Others 8–5. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 97 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
- 174
- No
- 154
- Did not vote
- 95
- Date
- Jul 22, 1937
By party
- Democrats169 yes · 88 no · 84 didn’t vote
- Republicans9 yes · 73 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Others8 yes · 5 no
Who broke with their party
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL voted no
- John Elvis Miller D-AR voted no
- William Ben Cravens D-AR voted no
- David Dickson Terry D-AR voted no
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA voted yes
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA voted yes
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted yes
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT voted no
- John Joseph Smith D-CT voted no
- William Michael Citron D-CT voted no
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted no
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted no
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA voted no
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA voted no
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA voted no
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- James Mcandrews D-IL voted no
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL voted no
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL voted no
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL voted no
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL voted no
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL voted no
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL voted no
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN voted no
- James Indus Farley D-IN voted no
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN voted no
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- Edward White Patterson D-KS voted no
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted yes
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY voted no
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY voted no
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted no
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted no
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY voted no
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA voted no
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA voted no
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-MA voted no
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD voted no
- David John Lewis D-MD voted no
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI voted no
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI voted no
- William Lester Nelson D-MO voted no
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted no
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO voted no
- Clyde Williams D-MO voted no
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO voted no
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC voted no
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC voted no
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC voted no
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted yes
- William Halstead Sutphin D-NJ voted no
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ voted no
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted no
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY voted no
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH voted no
- James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH voted no
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH voted no
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH voted no
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH voted no
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH voted no
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted no
- John Mcsweeney D-OH voted no
- Will Rogers D-OK voted no
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA voted no
- Oliver Walter Frey D-PA voted no
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA voted no
And 17 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Wade Hampton Kitchens D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Frank Henry Buck D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner O-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Joseph Mcgrath D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Charles Kramer D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- John Francis Dockweiler D-CA
- Charles J. Colden D-CA
- Byron Nicholson Scott D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Fred Nelson Cummings D-CO
- John Andrew Martin D-CO
- Edward Thomas Taylor D-CO
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- James Andrew Shanley D-CT
- Alfred Noroton Phillips D-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- James Mark Wilcox D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Otha Donner Wearin D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- David Worth Clark D-ID
- Raymond Stephen Mckeough D-IL
- Harry Peter Beam D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Leo Paul Kocialkowski D-IL
- Chester Charles Thompson D-IL
- James Andrew Meeks D-IL
- William Theodore Schulte D-IN
- Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN
- William Henry Larrabee D-IN
- John Mills Houston D-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Robert Louis Mouton 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
- Vincent Luke Palmisano D-MD
- Ambrose Jerome Kennedy D-MD
- Stephen Warfield Gambrill D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- John Frederick Luecke D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- 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
- Reuben Terrell Wood D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman 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
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Jerry Joseph O'Connell D-MT
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- 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
- Elmer H. Wene 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
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Christopher Daniel Sullivan D-NY
- William Irving Sirovich D-NY
- John Joseph O'Connor D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James Joseph Lanzetta D-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Edward Walter Curley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Alfred Florian Beiter D-NY
- Caroline Love Goodwin O'Day D-NY
- Herbert Seely Bigelow D-OH
- Dow Watters Harter D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- Wilburn Cartwright D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Robert Potter Hill D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Samuel Chapman Massingale D-OK
- Phillip Colgan Ferguson D-OK
- Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR
- Nan Wood Honeyman D-OR
- Leon Sacks D-PA
- John Burrwood Daly D-PA
- Ira Walton Drew D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Boland D-PA
- John Harold Flannery D-PA
- James Hilary Gildea D-PA
- Guy Louis Moser D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Charles Richard Eckert D-PA
- Robert Gray Allen D-PA
- Peter Joseph De Muth D-PA
- Matthew Anthony Dunn D-PA
- John Matthew O'Connell D-RI
- Fred Herman Hildebrandt D-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Samuel Davis Mcreynolds D-TN
- Richard Merrill Atkinson D-TN
- Clarence Wyly Turner D-TN
- Herron Carney Pearson D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Clyde Leonard Garrett D-TX
- John Marvin Jones D-TX
- Fontaine Maury Maverick D-TX
- Charles Lacy South D-TX
- Orrice Abram Murdock Jr. (Abe) D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Norman Rond Hamilton D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry 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
- Michael Kieran Reilly D-WI
- Gerald John Boileau O-WI
- George William Johnson D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Paul Ranous Greever D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- John Elvis Miller D-AR
- William Ben Cravens D-AR
- David Dickson Terry D-AR
- William Joseph Fitzgerald D-CT
- John Joseph Smith D-CT
- William Michael Citron D-CT
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Braswell Drue Deen D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Frederick Elliott Biermann D-IA
- Lloyd Thurston R-IA
- Cassius Clay Dowell R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- James Mcandrews D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Lewis Leonard Boyer D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Hugh McPheeters Rigney D-IL
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Edwin Martin Schaefer D-IL
- Laurence Fletcher Arnold D-IL
- Edwin Van Meter Champion D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN
- James Indus Farley D-IN
- Glenn Hasenfratz Griswold D-IN
- Eugene Burgess Crowe D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Edward White Patterson D-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Frederick Moore Vinson D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Joseph Edward Casey D-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Arthur Daniel Healey D-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
- Thomas Alan Goldsborough D-MD
- David John Lewis D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver R-ME
- Clyde Harold Smith R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI
- Andrew Jackson Transue D-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- William Lester Nelson D-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Joseph Bernard Shannon D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clyde Williams D-MO
- Charles Arthur Anderson D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Lindsay Carter Warren D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Franklin Wills Hancock Jr. D-NC
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Arthur Byron Jenks R-NH
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-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
- Edward Leo O'Neill D-NJ
- Frank William Towey Jr. D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Robert Low Bacon R-NY
- Marcellus Hugh Evans D-NY
- Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY
- Hamilton Fish 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
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Joseph Andrew Dixon D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Arthur William Aleshire D-OH
- Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH
- John Feeney Hunter D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Harold Kile Claypool D-OH
- Arthur Philip Lamneck D-OH
- Dudley Allen White R-OH
- William Albert Ashbrook D-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Will Rogers D-OK
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Oliver Walter Frey D-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
- Guy Jacob Swope D-PA
- Benjamin Jarrett R-PA
- Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Clarence Taylor D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Willis Taylor R-TN
- John Ridley Mitchell D-TN
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow O-WI
- George John Schneider O-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Bernard John Gehrmann O-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Andrew Edmiston D-WV
Did not vote
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- William Brockman Bankhead D-AL
- William Joshua Driver D-AR
- Claude Albert Fuller D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Henry Elbert Stubbs D-CA
- John Steven Mcgroarty D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- William Franklin Allen D-DE
- Millard Fillmore Caldwell D-FL
- Emmett Marshall Owen D-GA
- Edward Clayton Eicher D-IA
- William Sebastian Jacobsen D-IA
- Vincent Francis Harrington D-IA
- Arthur Wergs Mitchell D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Frank William Fries D-IL
- Claude VanCleve Parsons D-IL
- Kent Ellsworth Keller D-IL
- Lewis Marshall Long D-IL
- Arthur Herbert Greenwood D-IN
- John William Boehne Jr. D-IN
- Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Joachim Octave Fernández D-LA
- Lawrence Joseph Connery D-MA
- William Patrick Connery Jr. D-MA
- John Patrick Higgins D-MA
- Thomas Aloysius Flaherty D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- William Purington Cole Jr. D-MD
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Elmer James Ryan D-MN
- Richard Meloan Duncan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- John Walter Lambeth D-NC
- Alphonse Roy D-NH
- Edward Aloysius Kenney D-NJ
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- John Joseph Boylan D-NY
- Bruce Barton R-NY
- Theodore Albert Peyser D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Lewis Kirby Rockefeller R-NY
- Philip Arnold Goodwin R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- George Bradshaw Kelly D-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- James Michael Mead D-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Byron Berry Harlan D-OH
- Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH
- Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH
- Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH
- Martin Leonard Sweeney D-OH
- Anthony Alfred Fleger D-OH
- Harold Gerard Mosier D-OH
- Gomer Griffith Smith D-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Frank Joseph Gerard Dorsey D-PA
- Michael Joseph Stack D-PA
- Benjamin Kurtz Focht R-PA
- Harry Luther Haines D-PA
- Don Gingery D-PA
- Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA
- Charles Noel Crosby D-PA
- James Leland Quinn D-PA
- Henry Ellenbogen D-PA
- Thomas Sanders Mcmillan D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Gabriel Heyward Mahon Jr. D-SC
- Allard Henry Gasque D-SC
- Walter (Clift) Chandler D-TN
- Morgan Gurley Sanders D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- James Paul Buchanan D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Andrew Jackson Montague D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Raymond Joseph Cannon D-WI
- Thomas David Patrick O'Malley D-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Other votes
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