House roll call 62 · 80th Congress · Jul 11, 1947
HR 4051. Amend the natural gas act approved june 21, 1938, as amended. Motion to recommit with instructions.
On Jul 11, 1947, the House voted 64–253 (HR 4051). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 10–193, Democrats 80–87, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 90 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
- 64
- No
- 253
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Jul 11, 1947
By party
- Democrats80 yes · 87 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans10 yes · 193 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted yes
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted yes
- Carter Manasco D-AL voted yes
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL voted yes
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA voted yes
- Clair Engle D-CA voted yes
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA voted yes
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted yes
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted yes
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted yes
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted yes
- John Albert Carroll D-CO voted yes
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted yes
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA voted yes
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted yes
- Martin Gorski D-IL voted yes
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted yes
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted yes
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted yes
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted yes
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted yes
- Brent Spence D-KY voted yes
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted yes
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted yes
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA voted yes
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted yes
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted yes
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD voted yes
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted yes
- John David Dingell D-MI voted yes
- John Lesinski D-MI voted yes
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted yes
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted yes
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted yes
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted yes
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted yes
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT voted yes
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC voted yes
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC voted yes
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH voted yes
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ voted yes
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted yes
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ voted yes
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY voted yes
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY voted yes
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY voted yes
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY voted yes
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY voted yes
- John James Rooney D-NY voted yes
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted yes
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY voted yes
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted yes
- Arthur George Klein D-NY voted yes
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted yes
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY voted yes
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY voted yes
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY voted yes
- David Matthew Potts R-NY voted yes
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY voted yes
- Walter B. Huber D-OH voted yes
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted yes
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted yes
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted yes
- James Paul Scoblick R-PA voted yes
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA voted yes
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted yes
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted yes
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA voted yes
- Harve Tibbott R-PA voted yes
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA voted yes
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted yes
- Frank Buchanan D-PA voted yes
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI voted yes
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI voted yes
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN voted yes
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN voted yes
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN voted yes
And 10 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- 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
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- 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
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- 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
- 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
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- David Matthew Potts R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- James Paul Scoblick R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Robert James Corbett 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 Arnold Gore 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
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Merlin Hull R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- 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
- 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
- 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
- George Armistead Smathers 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
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler 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
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Thomas Leonard Owens R-IL
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison 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
- 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
- Raymond Smiley Springer 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
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Wendell Howes Meade R-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Hugh Allen Meade D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- 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
- John Bonifas Bennett 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
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen 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
- Albert Lee Reeves Jr. R-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow 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
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM
- Charles Hinton Russell R-NV
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Gregory Mcmahon R-NY
- Robert Joseph Nodar Jr. R-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn 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
- 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
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown 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
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Glen Dale Johnson D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Preston Elmer Peden D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell 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
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Mitchell Jenkins R-PA
- Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- William Josiah Crow R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- 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
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan 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
- 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
Voted present
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- Charles Kimball Fletcher R-CA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Abe McGregor Goff R-ID
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Howard Aldridge Coffin R-MI
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- William Lemke R-ND
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- E. Wallace Chadwick R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Homer Raymond Jones R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
Did not vote
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- William Lewis R-KY
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Leo Isacson O-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Fred Barthold Norman R-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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