House roll call 115 · 83rd Congress · Jul 13, 1954
H RES 623. Resolution providing for the consideration of HR 8356, a bill to improve the public health by encouraging more extensive use of the voluntary prepay
On Jul 13, 1954, the House voted 274–88 (HRE 623). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 175–18, Democrats 99–71, Independents 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 89 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
- 274
- No
- 88
- Did not vote
- 7
- Date
- Jul 13, 1954
By party
- Democrats99 yes · 71 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans175 yes · 18 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA voted no
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL voted no
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted no
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
- Kit Francis Clardy R-MI voted no
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted no
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Durham 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
- George Adams Shuford D-NC voted no
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY voted no
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY voted no
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY voted no
- John James Rooney D-NY voted no
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY voted no
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH voted no
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted no
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH voted no
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted no
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK voted no
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted no
- John Jarman D-OK voted no
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK voted no
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA voted no
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted no
- Clifford Davis D-TN voted no
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX voted no
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX voted no
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX voted no
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted no
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX voted no
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX voted no
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX voted no
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX voted no
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted no
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX voted no
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX voted no
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA voted no
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA voted no
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted no
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted no
And 9 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. 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
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Robert Likens Condon D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- 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
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Herbert Birchby Warburton R-DE
- Courtney Warren Campbell D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham 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
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-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
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed 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
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- 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
- D. Bailey Merrill 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
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-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
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. 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
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Charles Gibb Oakman R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Jeffrey Paul Hillelson R-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Roman Lee Hruska R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey 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
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- 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
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-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
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards 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
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Douglas R. Stringfellow R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Kit Francis Clardy R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- William Elmer Neal R-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
Voted present
- Oren Harris D-AR
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- Samuel William Yorty D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Edward John Bonin R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- 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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