Senate roll call 155 · 82nd Congress · Sep 7, 1951
S 1046. Long amend. Increasing rates on second-class mail by 20% each year for 3 years except for newspapers.
On Sep 7, 1951, the Senate voted 36–24 (S 1046). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 31–7, Republicans 7–20. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 14 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
- 36
- No
- 24
- Did not vote
- 3
- Date
- Sep 7, 1951
By party
- Democrats31 yes · 7 no · 1 didn’t vote
- Republicans7 yes · 20 no · 2 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA voted yes
- Brien Mcmahon D-CT voted no
- John James Williams R-DE voted yes
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL voted no
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA voted no
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID voted yes
- William Ezra Jenner R-IN voted yes
- Earle C. Clements D-KY voted no
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY voted no
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME voted yes
- William Langer R-ND voted yes
- John Orlando Pastore D-RI voted no
- Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston D-SC voted no
- Joseph Raymond Mccarthy R-WI voted yes
The bill
How each senator voted: Yes
- 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
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- Edwin Carl Johnson D-CO
- William Benton D-CT
- John James Williams R-DE
- Joseph Allen Frear Jr. D-DE
- Spessard Lindsey Holland D-FL
- Richard Brevard Russell Jr. D-GA
- Walter Franklin George D-GA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Paul Howard Douglas D-IL
- William Ezra Jenner R-IN
- Russell Billiu Long D-LA
- Herbert Romulus O'Conor D-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
- Clyde Roark Hoey D-NC
- William Langer R-ND
- Dennis Chavez D-NM
- Herbert Henry Lehman D-NY
- Robert Samuel Kerr D-OK
- Burnet Rhett Maybank D-SC
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Kenneth Douglas Mckellar D-TN
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- Joseph Raymond Mccarthy R-WI
- Harley Martin Kilgore D-WV
- Matthew Mansfield Neely D-WV
- Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney D-WY
- Lester Callaway Hunt D-WY
How each senator voted: No
- Eugene Donald Millikin R-CO
- Brien Mcmahon D-CT
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Guy Mark Gillette D-IA
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Andrew Frank Schoeppel R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. R-MA
- John Marshall Butler R-MD
- Zales Nelson Ecton R-MT
- Milton Ruben Young R-ND
- Hugh Alfred Butler R-NE
- Howard Alexander Smith R-NJ
- Robert Clymer Hendrickson R-NJ
- George Wilson Malone R-NV
- Irving McNeil Ives R-NY
- Guy Cordon R-OR
- Edward Martin R-PA
- John Orlando Pastore D-RI
- Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Wallace Foster Bennett R-UT
- George David Aiken R-VT
- Harry Pulliam Cain R-WA
Voted present
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- William Fife Knowland R-CA
- Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper R-IA
- Herman Welker R-ID
- Homer Earl Capehart R-IN
- Allen Joseph Ellender D-LA
- 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
- Patrick Anthony (Pat) Mccarran D-NV
- John William Bricker R-OH
- Robert Alphonso Taft R-OH
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Wayne Lyman Morse R-OR
- James Henderson Duff R-PA
- Theodore Francis Green D-RI
- Arthur Vivian Watkins R-UT
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Harry Flood Byrd D-VA
- 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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