House roll call 112 · 83rd Congress · Jul 8, 1954
HR 9709. Extend and improve the unemployment compensation program. Motion to recommit.
On Jul 8, 1954, the House voted 110–241 (HR 9709). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 18–183, Democrats 111–78, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 96 members voted against their own party.
During the 83rd Congress (1953–1954), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 110
- No
- 241
- Did not vote
- 7
- Date
- Jul 8, 1954
By party
- Democrats111 yes · 78 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans18 yes · 183 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Courtney Warren Campbell D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted no
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted no
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted yes
- Howard Shultz Miller D-KS voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted yes
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC voted no
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted no
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted no
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted yes
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM voted no
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY voted yes
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted yes
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted yes
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted no
- John Jarman D-OK voted no
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK voted no
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR voted yes
- James Grove Fulton R-PA voted yes
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- John Jacob Riley D-SC voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted no
- Jere Cooper D-TN voted no
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX voted no
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX voted no
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted no
- Albert Thomas D-TX voted no
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX voted no
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX voted no
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX voted no
And 16 more.
The bill
H.R. 9709: To extend and improve the unemployment compensation program
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Robert Likens Condon D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Samuel William Yorty D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-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
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Herbert Birchby Warburton R-DE
- Courtney Warren Campbell 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
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle 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
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- William Estus Mcvey R-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
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-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
- D. Bailey Merrill R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Howard Shultz Miller D-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Frank Small Jr. R-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Kit Francis Clardy R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- Charles Gibb Oakman R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Jeffrey Paul Hillelson R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Roman Lee Hruska R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison 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
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Douglas R. Stringfellow R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- William Elmer Neal R-WV
Voted present
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Edward John Bonin R-PA
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Did not vote
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Garrett Lee Withers D-KY
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Merlin Hull R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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