House roll call 156 · 79th Congress · May 13, 1946
H RES 616. Resolution that the remarks of august schelle, President of the CIO council as printed on pages a2755-a2756 of the record of may 10 be s tricken fro
On May 13, 1946, the House voted 247–77 (HRE 616). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 92–78, Republicans 157–2, Others 1–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 80 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
- 247
- No
- 77
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- May 13, 1946
By party
- Democrats92 yes · 78 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Republicans157 yes · 2 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ voted no
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ voted no
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted no
- George Elmer Outland D-CA voted no
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted no
- Ellis Ellwood Patterson D-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA voted no
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT voted no
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT voted no
- Joseph Francis Ryter D-CT voted no
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- William A. Rowan D-IL voted no
- Martin Gorski D-IL voted no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- William Walter Link D-IL voted no
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted no
- Earle C. Clements D-KY voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted no
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI voted no
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted no
- William James Gallagher D-MN voted no
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO voted no
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT voted no
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND voted no
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV voted no
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY voted no
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY voted no
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY voted no
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted no
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- Arthur George Klein D-NY voted no
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted no
- James H. Torrens D-NY voted no
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted no
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY voted no
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY voted no
- George Frederick Rogers D-NY voted no
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH voted no
- Walter B. Huber D-OH voted no
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- William Grady Stigler D-OK voted no
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK voted no
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA voted no
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA voted no
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA voted no
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA voted no
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA voted no
- Herbert Joseph Mcglinchey D-PA voted no
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA voted no
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI voted no
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI voted no
- Butler Black Hare D-SC voted no
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN voted no
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT voted no
- James William Robinson D-UT voted no
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA voted no
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA voted no
- John Main Coffee D-WA voted no
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI voted no
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV voted no
- John Kee D-WV voted no
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough 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
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Carl Vinson 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
- Edward Austin Kelly D-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
- 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
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- 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
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton 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
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Dudley George Roe D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- 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
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney 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
- Walter Henry Judd 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
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan 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
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Sherman Adams R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Peter Anthony Quinn D-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
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed 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
- 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
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham 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
- 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
- Howard Edmond Campbell R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Harold Henderson Earthman D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Robert Kirkland Henry R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Ellis Ellwood Patterson D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT
- Joseph Francis Ryter D-CT
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- William A. Rowan 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
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- 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
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers 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
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- George Frederick Rogers D-NY
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson 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
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Helen Douglas Mankin D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Alexander John Resa D-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- James A. Roe D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Edward Joseph Gardner D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- John William Murphy D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- Ralph Hunter Daughton D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-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
- William Olin Burgin 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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