Senate roll call 153 · 82nd Congress · Sep 7, 1951
S 1046. Long amend. Excepting panny postals for personal correspondence or by certain organizations from increase to 2 on post cards.
On Sep 7, 1951, the Senate voted 10–56 (S 1046). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 7–32, Republicans 4–27. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 11 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
- 10
- No
- 56
- Did not vote
- 3
- Date
- Sep 7, 1951
By party
- Democrats7 yes · 32 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Republicans4 yes · 27 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Richard Brevard Russell Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Allen Joseph Ellender D-LA voted yes
- Russell Billiu Long D-LA voted yes
- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. R-MA voted yes
- William Langer R-ND voted yes
- George Wilson Malone R-NV voted yes
- Irving McNeil Ives R-NY voted yes
- John Orlando Pastore D-RI voted yes
- Burnet Rhett Maybank D-SC voted yes
- Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston D-SC voted yes
- Harley Martin Kilgore D-WV voted yes
The bill
How each senator voted: Yes
How each senator voted: No
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- Ernest William Mcfarland D-AZ
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- Edwin Carl Johnson D-CO
- Eugene Donald Millikin R-CO
- Brien Mcmahon D-CT
- William Benton D-CT
- John James Williams R-DE
- Joseph Allen Frear Jr. D-DE
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Spessard Lindsey Holland D-FL
- Walter Franklin George D-GA
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Herman Welker R-ID
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Paul Howard Douglas D-IL
- Homer Earl Capehart R-IN
- William Ezra Jenner R-IN
- Andrew Frank Schoeppel R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Herbert Romulus O'Conor D-MD
- John Marshall Butler R-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Arthur Edson Blair Moody D-MI
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. D-MN
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- John Cornelius Stennis D-MS
- Zales Nelson Ecton R-MT
- Clyde Roark Hoey D-NC
- Milton Ruben Young R-ND
- Hugh Alfred Butler R-NE
- Howard Alexander Smith R-NJ
- Robert Clymer Hendrickson R-NJ
- Herbert Henry Lehman D-NY
- Robert Alphonso Taft R-OH
- Robert Samuel Kerr D-OK
- Guy Cordon R-OR
- Edward Martin R-PA
- James Henderson Duff R-PA
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- 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
- Wallace Foster Bennett R-UT
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Harry Flood Byrd D-VA
- George David Aiken R-VT
- Harry Pulliam Cain R-WA
- Joseph Raymond Mccarthy R-WI
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney D-WY
- Lester Callaway Hunt D-WY
Voted present
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- James William Fulbright D-AR
- William Fife Knowland R-CA
- Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper R-IA
- Leverett Saltonstall R-MA
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Homer Samuel Ferguson R-MI
- Edward John Thye R-MN
- James Preston Kem R-MO
- James Oliver Eastland D-MS
- James Edward Murray D-MT
- Willis Smith D-NC
- Kenneth Spicer Wherry R-NE
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Henry Styles (Styles) Bridges R-NH
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
- Dennis Chavez D-NM
- Patrick Anthony (Pat) Mccarran D-NV
- John William Bricker R-OH
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Wayne Lyman Morse R-OR
- Theodore Francis Green D-RI
- Arthur Vivian Watkins R-UT
- Ralph Edward Flanders R-VT
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Alexander Wiley R-WI
Did not vote
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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