House roll call 205 · 79th Congress · Jul 16, 1946
HR 6739. Appropriations for the dept. Of labor the federal security agency and related independent agencies. On motion to recede and concur on Senate amend.
On Jul 16, 1946, the House voted 136–213 (HR 6739). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 102–82, Republicans 39–138, Others 2–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 121 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
- 136
- No
- 213
- Did not vote
- 14
- Date
- Jul 16, 1946
By party
- Democrats102 yes · 82 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Republicans39 yes · 138 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others2 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted no
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL voted no
- Carter Manasco D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted no
- Clair Engle D-CA voted no
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA voted no
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted no
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT voted yes
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted no
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- Hugh Peterson D-GA voted no
- Stephen Pace D-GA voted no
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID voted no
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted yes
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL voted yes
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted yes
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN voted yes
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted no
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY voted no
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY voted yes
- Paul Herbert Maloney D-LA voted no
- James Domengeaux D-LA voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Charles Edgar Mckenzie D-LA voted no
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA voted no
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted yes
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA voted yes
- George Joseph Bates R-MA voted yes
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA voted yes
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted yes
- Dudley George Roe D-MD voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted yes
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME voted yes
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN voted yes
- William Clay Cole R-MO voted yes
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO voted no
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC voted no
- Eliza Jane Pratt D-NC voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC voted no
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC voted no
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC voted no
- Sherman Adams R-NH voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted yes
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted yes
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ voted yes
And 41 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis 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
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT
- Joseph Francis Ryter D-CT
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- 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
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook 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
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- Sherman Adams R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Berkeley Lloyd Bunker D-NV
- William Bernard Barry D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh 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
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Peter Anthony Quinn D-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- George Frederick Rogers D-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Edward Joseph Gardner D-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- 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
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull O-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Carl Vinson 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
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield 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
- 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
- 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
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- 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
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Dudley George Roe D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- 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
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-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
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Eliza Jane Pratt 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
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre 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
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. 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
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. 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
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- David Emmert Brumbaugh R-PA
- Carl Henry Hoffman R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Howard Edmond Campbell R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry 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
- Robert Kirkland Henry R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Voted present
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Helen Douglas Mankin D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- James A. Roe D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- James H. Torrens D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Harold Henderson Earthman D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley 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
- Ralph Hunter Daughton D-VA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
Did not vote
- Robert C. Word Ramspeck D-GA
- James Vandaveer Heidinger R-IL
- James Francis O'Connor D-MT
- 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
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Samuel Arthur Weiss D-PA
- Dave Edward Satterfield Jr. D-VA
- Thomas Granville Burch D-VA
- Clifton Alexander Woodrum D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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