House roll call 121 · 79th Congress · Mar 6, 1946
To amend HR 4761. On monroney amendment.
On Mar 6, 1946, the House voted 249–134 (HR 4761). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 87–131, Republicans 169–8, Others 0–2. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 95 members voted against their own party.
During the 79th Congress (1945–1946), Harry S. Truman was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 249
- No
- 134
- Did not vote
- 15
- Date
- Mar 6, 1946
By party
- Democrats87 yes · 131 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Republicans169 yes · 8 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted yes
- George William Andrews D-AL voted yes
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted yes
- Carter Manasco D-AL voted yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- James William Trimble D-AR voted yes
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR voted yes
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted yes
- Oren Harris D-AR voted yes
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted yes
- Clair Engle D-CA voted yes
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted no
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted yes
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted no
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted yes
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL voted yes
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted yes
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted yes
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted yes
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted yes
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted yes
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted yes
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA voted yes
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted yes
- Paul Brown D-GA voted yes
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN voted no
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted yes
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA voted yes
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted yes
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted yes
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted yes
- Dudley George Roe D-MD voted yes
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD voted yes
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME voted no
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted yes
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO voted yes
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO 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
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS voted yes
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted yes
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted yes
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted yes
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted yes
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted yes
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC voted yes
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted yes
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC voted yes
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted no
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ voted yes
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY voted yes
- Paul Stewart D-OK voted yes
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK voted yes
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted yes
- James Grove Fulton R-PA voted no
- John Jacob Riley D-SC voted yes
- Butler Black Hare D-SC voted yes
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC voted yes
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC voted yes
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted yes
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN voted yes
- Harold Henderson Earthman D-TN voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted yes
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX voted yes
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX voted yes
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX voted yes
- Thomas Augustus Pickett 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
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX voted yes
And 15 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- 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
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-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
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Dudley George Roe D-MD
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-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
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Sherman Adams R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess 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
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- John Roland Kinzer R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- David Emmert Brumbaugh R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Howard Edmond Campbell R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards 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
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Harold Henderson Earthman D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ralph Hunter Daughton D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Ellis Ellwood Patterson D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT
- Joseph Francis Ryter D-CT
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- Helen Douglas Mankin D-GA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- William A. Rowan D-IL
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- William Walter Link D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Alexander John Resa D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski 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
- William James Gallagher D-MN
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- William Olin Burgin D-NC
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- James A. Roe D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- James H. Torrens D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Peter Anthony Quinn D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- George Frederick Rogers D-NY
- Edward Joseph Gardner D-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Herbert Joseph Mcglinchey D-PA
- John William Murphy D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Albert Arnold Gore 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
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Voted present
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Robert Kirkland Henry R-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
Did not vote
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- James Vandaveer Heidinger R-IL
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- Eliza Jane Pratt D-NC
- Joseph Wilson Ervin D-NC
- David Lane Powers R-NJ
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
- Samuel Dickstein D-NY
- James Wheaton Mott R-OR
- Carl Henry Hoffman R-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Samuel Arthur Weiss D-PA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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