Senate roll call 124 · 82nd Congress · Aug 15, 1951
HR 4386. Ferguson motion to recommit with instructions to reduce total amounts to a sum not in excess of 90% of budget estimates and non-budgeted items.
On Aug 15, 1951, the Senate voted 32–39 (HR 4386). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 11–33, Republicans 22–8. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 19 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
- 32
- No
- 39
- Did not vote
- 3
- Date
- Aug 15, 1951
By party
- Democrats11 yes · 33 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Republicans22 yes · 8 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Brien Mcmahon D-CT voted yes
- William Benton D-CT voted yes
- Joseph Allen Frear Jr. D-DE voted yes
- Paul Howard Douglas D-IL voted yes
- Homer Earl Capehart R-IN voted no
- Andrew Frank Schoeppel R-KS voted no
- Frank Carlson R-KS voted no
- Herbert Romulus O'Conor D-MD voted yes
- Arthur Edson Blair Moody D-MI voted yes
- Zales Nelson Ecton R-MT voted no
- George Wilson Malone R-NV voted no
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK voted yes
- Guy Cordon R-OR voted no
- John Orlando Pastore D-RI voted yes
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD voted no
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA voted yes
- Harry Pulliam Cain R-WA voted no
- Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney D-WY voted yes
- Lester Callaway Hunt D-WY voted yes
The bill
How each senator voted: Yes
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- William Fife Knowland R-CA
- Brien Mcmahon D-CT
- William Benton D-CT
- John James Williams R-DE
- Joseph Allen Frear Jr. D-DE
- Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper R-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Herman Welker R-ID
- Paul Howard Douglas D-IL
- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. R-MA
- Leverett Saltonstall R-MA
- Herbert Romulus O'Conor D-MD
- John Marshall Butler R-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Arthur Edson Blair Moody D-MI
- Homer Samuel Ferguson R-MI
- Edward John Thye R-MN
- Kenneth Spicer Wherry R-NE
- Henry Styles (Styles) Bridges R-NH
- Howard Alexander Smith R-NJ
- Robert Clymer Hendrickson R-NJ
- Irving McNeil Ives R-NY
- John William Bricker R-OH
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- John Orlando Pastore D-RI
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Wallace Foster Bennett R-UT
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Alexander Wiley R-WI
- Joseph Raymond Mccarthy R-WI
- Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney D-WY
- Lester Callaway Hunt D-WY
How each senator voted: No
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- James William Fulbright D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- Ernest William Mcfarland D-AZ
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Spessard Lindsey Holland D-FL
- Richard Brevard Russell Jr. D-GA
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA
- Homer Earl Capehart R-IN
- Andrew Frank Schoeppel R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Allen Joseph Ellender D-LA
- Russell Billiu Long D-LA
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. D-MN
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- James Oliver Eastland D-MS
- John Cornelius Stennis D-MS
- Zales Nelson Ecton R-MT
- Clyde Roark Hoey D-NC
- Dennis Chavez D-NM
- George Wilson Malone R-NV
- Patrick Anthony (Pat) Mccarran D-NV
- Herbert Henry Lehman D-NY
- Robert Samuel Kerr D-OK
- Guy Cordon R-OR
- Theodore Francis Green D-RI
- Burnet Rhett Maybank D-SC
- Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Kenneth Douglas Mckellar D-TN
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- Harry Pulliam Cain R-WA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Harley Martin Kilgore D-WV
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
Voted present
- Edwin Carl Johnson D-CO
- Eugene Donald Millikin R-CO
- Walter Franklin George D-GA
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- William Ezra Jenner R-IN
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- James Preston Kem R-MO
- James Edward Murray D-MT
- Willis Smith D-NC
- Milton Ruben Young R-ND
- William Langer R-ND
- Hugh Alfred Butler R-NE
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
- Robert Alphonso Taft R-OH
- Wayne Lyman Morse R-OR
- Edward Martin R-PA
- James Henderson Duff R-PA
- Arthur Vivian Watkins R-UT
- Harry Flood Byrd D-VA
- George David Aiken R-VT
- Ralph Edward Flanders R-VT
Did not vote
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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