House roll call 220 · 79th Congress · Jul 29, 1946
To dispense with further proceedings under the call.
On Jul 29, 1946, the House voted 187–58. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 97–26, Republicans 89–31, Others 1–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 57 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
- 187
- No
- 58
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- Jul 29, 1946
By party
- Democrats97 yes · 26 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Republicans89 yes · 31 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted no
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA voted no
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT voted no
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT voted no
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT voted no
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted no
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- William A. Rowan D-IL voted no
- William Walter Link D-IL voted no
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted no
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL voted no
- George Evan Howell R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI voted no
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI voted no
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
- Harold Knutson R-MN voted no
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN voted no
- William Clay Cole R-MO voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND voted no
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE voted no
- Karl Stefan R-NE voted no
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY voted no
- Arthur George Klein D-NY voted no
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted no
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY voted no
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH voted no
- Walter B. Huber D-OH voted no
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH voted no
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted no
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR voted no
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA voted no
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA voted no
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted no
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted no
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD voted no
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX voted no
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT voted no
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA voted no
- John Main Coffee D-WA voted no
- Jennings Randolph D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- 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
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Horace Jeremiah (Jerry) Voorhis D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- Joseph Edward Talbot R-CT
- Philip Andrew Traynor D-DE
- 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
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Edward Austin Kelly D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Alexander John Resa D-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Charles Marion La Follette R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Pehr Gustaf Holmes R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth 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
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan 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
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Eliza Jane Pratt D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Peter Anthony Quinn D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Edward Joseph Gardner D-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
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman 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
- 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
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Robert Lewis Rodgers R-PA
- Howard Edmond Campbell R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Fritz Garland Lanham D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Charles Raymon Savage D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-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
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Ned Romeyn Healy D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Herman Paul Kopplemann D-CT
- James Patrick Geelan D-CT
- Clare Boothe Luce R-CT
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- William A. Rowan D-IL
- William Walter Link D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Frank Eugene Hook D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Frank Thomas Starkey D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- William Alvin Pittenger R-MN
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Edgar Allan Sharp R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Daniel Knabb Hoch D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Emerson Hugh Delacy D-WA
- John Main Coffee D-WA
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Luther Patrick D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Harvey Tolan D-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- George Elmer Outland D-CA
- Ellis Ellwood Patterson D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Edouard Victor Michel Izac D-CA
- Dean Milton Gillespie R-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- Joseph Francis Ryter D-CT
- Arthur Patrick (Pat) Cannon D-FL
- Hugh Peterson D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Helen Douglas Mankin D-GA
- Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA
- John Strickland Gibson D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Jessie Sumner R-IL
- Emily Taft Douglas D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Thomas Daniel Winter R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Emmet O'Neal D-KY
- Andrew Jackson May D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates 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
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- James Michael Curley D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Harry Streett Baldwin D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- William James Gallagher D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Roger Caldwell Slaughter D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- John Joseph Cochran D-MO
- Daniel Rayford Mcgehee D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Zebulon Weaver D-NC
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Sherman Adams R-NH
- Thomas Millet Hand 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
- 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 A. Roe D-NY
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Joseph Clark Baldwin R-NY
- James H. Torrens D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Augustus Witschief Bennet R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- George Frederick Rogers D-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- William Richard Thom D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Paul Stewart D-OK
- Lyle H. Boren D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Michael Joseph Bradley D-PA
- John Edward Sheridan D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Herbert Joseph Mcglinchey D-PA
- James Wolfenden R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- David Emmert Brumbaugh R-PA
- Carl Henry Hoffman R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Butler Black Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- 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
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray 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
- Hatton William Sumners D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Sam Morris Russell D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- James William Robinson D-UT
- Ralph Hunter Daughton D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Robert Kirkland Henry R-WI
- Thaddeus Francis Boleslaw Wasielewski D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- John Kee 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 William Murphy D-PA
- John Buell Snyder D-PA
- Samuel Arthur Weiss D-PA
- Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX
- 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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