House roll call 8 · 82nd Congress · Mar 7, 1951
HR 2516. Amend the aaa of 1938, as amended. On motion to recommit.
On Mar 7, 1951, the House voted 174–212 (HR 2516). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 38–168, Republicans 137–46, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 84 members voted against their own party.
During the 82nd Congress (1951–1952), Harry S. Truman was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 174
- No
- 212
- Did not vote
- 15
- Date
- Mar 7, 1951
By party
- Democrats38 yes · 168 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans137 yes · 46 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA voted no
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA voted no
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA voted no
- Samuel William Yorty D-CA voted yes
- John Phillips R-CA voted no
- William Silas Hill R-CO voted no
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted no
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT voted yes
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted no
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL voted no
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted yes
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted yes
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted yes
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL voted no
- Ralph Harvey R-IN voted no
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted no
- James Stephen Golden R-KY voted no
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA voted yes
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted no
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD voted no
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD voted no
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI voted yes
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted yes
- August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted no
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO voted yes
- Orland Kay Armstrong R-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted yes
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE voted no
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ voted yes
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ voted yes
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted yes
- Ernest Greenwood D-NY voted yes
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY voted yes
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY voted yes
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY voted yes
- John James Rooney D-NY voted yes
- James George Donovan D-NY voted yes
- Arthur George Klein D-NY voted yes
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. D-NY voted yes
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY voted yes
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY voted yes
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY voted yes
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY voted no
- William Sterling Cole R-NY voted no
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY voted no
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY voted no
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted no
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted yes
- Robert Crosser D-OH voted yes
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK voted no
- Lowell Stockman R-OR voted no
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR voted no
- Earl Chudoff D-PA voted yes
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA voted yes
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA voted no
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA voted yes
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted yes
- Frank Buchanan D-PA voted yes
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI voted yes
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD voted no
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD voted no
- Albert Thomas D-TX voted yes
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT voted yes
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA voted no
And 4 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Samuel William Yorty D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- John Travers Wood R-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Howard Homan Buffett 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
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Ernest Greenwood D-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Albert Clinton Vaughn Sr. R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Edward Lewis Sittler Jr. R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Harmar Denny Denny Jr. R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- Chester Bartow Mcmullen D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester 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
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross 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
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Orland Kay Armstrong R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- 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
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-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
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Fred George Aandahl R-ND
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- James Joseph Murphy D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- John Kee D-WV
Did not vote
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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