House roll call 156 · 80th Congress · Jun 18, 1948
HR 6959. Amend the national housing act, as amended. Motion to suspend rules and pass.
On Jun 18, 1948, the House voted 318–90 (HR 6959). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 230–3, Democrats 88–85, Others 0–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 88 members voted against their own party.
During the 80th Congress (1947–1948), Harry S. Truman was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 318
- No
- 90
- Did not vote
- 20
- Date
- Jun 18, 1948
By party
- Democrats88 yes · 85 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans230 yes · 3 no · 11 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 2 no
Who broke with their party
- 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
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL voted no
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- Clair Engle D-CA voted no
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted no
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- John Albert Carroll D-CO voted no
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL voted no
- William Levi Dawson 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
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY voted no
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY voted no
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted no
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA voted no
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted no
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski D-MI voted no
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- Max Schwabe R-MO voted no
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted no
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT voted no
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC voted no
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE voted no
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted no
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ voted no
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM voted no
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY voted no
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY voted no
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY voted no
- John James Rooney D-NY voted no
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted no
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- Arthur George Klein D-NY voted no
- Sol Bloom D-NY voted no
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted no
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY voted no
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY voted no
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY voted no
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH voted no
- Walter B. Huber D-OH voted no
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted no
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted no
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK voted no
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK voted no
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted no
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA voted no
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- Frank Buchanan D-PA voted no
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI voted no
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI voted no
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN voted no
- John William Wright Patman D-TX voted no
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX voted no
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX voted no
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX voted no
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted no
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX voted no
And 8 more.
The bill
H.R. 6959: To amend the National Housing Act, as amended, and for other purposes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Carter Manasco 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
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Willis Winter Bradley R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Charles Kimball Fletcher R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Ellsworth Bishop Foote R-CT
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-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
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- 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
- Abe McGregor Goff R-ID
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Robert Joseph Twyman 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
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- William Grant Stratton 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
- Edward Archibald Mitchell R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Wendell Howes Meade R-KY
- William Lewis R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman 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
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Hugh Allen Meade D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz 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
- 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
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Howard Aldridge Coffin R-MI
- Harold Francis Youngblood R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- George Edward Mackinnon R-MN
- Edward James Devitt R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Albert Lee Reeves Jr. R-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell 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
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- John Hosea Kerr 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
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton 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
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Charles Hinton Russell R-NV
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Gregory Mcmahon R-NY
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- Robert Joseph Nodar Jr. R-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- David Matthew Potts R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George 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
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Raymond Hugh Burke R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen 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
- Henderson Haverfield Carson R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-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 A. Gallagher R-PA
- Robert Neill Mcgarvey R-PA
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Franklin John Maloney R-PA
- George William Sarbacher Jr. R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- E. Wallace Chadwick R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- James Paul Scoblick R-PA
- Mitchell Jenkins R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- William Josiah Crow R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn 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
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Homer Raymond Jones R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- John Charles Brophy R-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Francis Johnson Love R-WV
- Melvin Claude Snyder R-WV
- Edward Gay Rohrbough R-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- 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
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Leo Isacson O-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
Voted present
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Glen Dale Johnson D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Preston Elmer Peden D-OK
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
Did not vote
- Thomas Leonard Owens R-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Fred Barthold Norman R-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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