House roll call 55 · 78th Congress · Jun 18, 1943
To amend H.R. 2968, by reducing the appropriation for the office of war information from approximately $34.5 million to about $28.9 million. It also provides t
On Jun 18, 1943, the House voted 218–114 (HR 2968). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 184–5, Democrats 55–132, Others 3–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 60 members voted against their own party.
During the 78th Congress (1943–1944), Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 218
- No
- 114
- Did not vote
- 35
- Date
- Jun 18, 1943
By party
- Democrats55 yes · 132 no · 24 didn’t vote
- Republicans184 yes · 5 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Others3 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted yes
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL voted yes
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted yes
- Joe Starnes D-AL voted yes
- Carter Manasco D-AL voted yes
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL voted yes
- John Parks Newsome D-AL voted yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR voted yes
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted yes
- Oren Harris D-AR voted yes
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted yes
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted yes
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted yes
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA voted yes
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA voted yes
- Paul Brown D-GA voted yes
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID voted yes
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted yes
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted yes
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA voted yes
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA voted yes
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted yes
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted yes
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA voted no
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted no
- Daniel Ellison R-MD voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted yes
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Paul Stewart D-OK voted yes
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK voted yes
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted yes
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC voted yes
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC voted yes
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted yes
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX voted yes
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX voted yes
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted yes
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX voted yes
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX voted yes
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX voted yes
- Milton Horace West D-TX voted yes
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX voted yes
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX voted yes
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted yes
- Winder Russell Harris D-VA voted yes
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA voted yes
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Henry Bascom Steagall D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Joe Starnes D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- John Parks Newsome D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Thomas Rolph R-CA
- Albert Edward Carter R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- William Ward Johnson R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- John Dacher Mcwilliams R-CT
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT
- Boleslaus Joseph Monkiewicz R-CT
- Earle Dukes Willey R-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA
- Benjamin Frank Whelchel D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Fred Cramer Gilchrist R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Charles Schuveldt Dewey R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- William Howard Wheat R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Calvin Dean Johnson R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- James Vandaveer Heidinger R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Stephen Albion Day R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- William Purnell Lambertson R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Allen Towner Treadway R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Richard Pillsbury Gale R-MN
- Melvin Joseph Maas R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen O-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- William Price Elmer R-MO
- Louis Ebenezer Miller R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Donald Holman Mclean R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Fred James Douglas R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Joseph John O'Brien R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Joseph Mruk R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Winifred Claire Stanley R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Harry Palmer Jeffrey R-OH
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Edmund Rowe R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- Henderson Haverfield Carson R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- James A. Gallagher R-PA
- Charles Frederick Pracht R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Thomas Byron Miller R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- William Irvin Troutman R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Hampton Pitts Fulmer D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Richard Mifflin Kleberg Sr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Winder Russell Harris D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Fred Barthold Norman R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Harry Sauthoff O-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Andrew Charles Schiffler R-WV
- Edward Gay Rohrbough R-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- James William Fulbright D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Thomas Francis Ford D-CA
- William Vann Rogers Jr. D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- William A. Rowan D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Leonard William Schuetz D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Beverly Mills Vincent D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Edward Wester Creal D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- David Jenkins Ward D-MD
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Daniel Ellison R-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Cameron A. Morrison D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Elmer H. Wene D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
- Maurice Joseph Sullivan D-NV
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Thomas Henry Cullen D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Louis Joseph Capozzoli D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Thomas Francis Burchill D-NY
- James Herbert Fay D-NY
- Martin John Kennedy D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Joseph Andrew Gavagan D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Martin Fitzpatrick D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Matthew Joseph Merritt D-NY
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- James Patrick Mcgranery D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- Francis John Myers D-PA
- John William Murphy D-PA
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- Thomas Edward Scanlon D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Robert Grant Furlong D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Samuel Arthur Weiss D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- James Assion Wright D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Jim Nance Mccord D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Nat Patton D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Howard Johnstone Mcmurray D-WI
- LaVern Ralph Dilweg D-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
Voted present
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Martin Costello D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- C. H. Ranulf Compton R-CT
- Robert Alexis (Lex) Green D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Foster Waterman Stearns R-NH
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- Hamilton Fish R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Francis Dugan Culkin R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- John William Ditter R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- Joseph Luther Smith D-WV
Did not vote
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Harry Lane Englebright R-CA
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO
- Lawrence Lewis D-CO
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Ulysses Samuel Guyer R-KS
- Chester Otto Carrier R-KY
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- James Aloysius O'Leary D-NY
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- James H. Torrens D-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Wesley Ernest Disney D-OK
- John Conover Nichols D-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Joseph Marmaduke Pratt R-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- David Emmert Brumbaugh R-PA
- Willa Lybrand Fulmer D-SC
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Ralph Hunter Daughton D-VA
Other votes
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