HR 8300. Adoption of conference report.

On Jul 28, 1954, the House voted 315–77 (HR 8300). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 203–4, Democrats 117–77, Independents 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 81 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: 315
No: 77
Did not vote: 9
Date: Jul 28, 1954

By party

Democrats117 yes · 77 no · 5 didn’t vote
Republicans203 yes · 4 no · 4 didn’t vote
Independents0 yes · 1 no

Who broke with their party

George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
George William Andrews D-AL voted no
Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL voted no
Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
James William Trimble D-AR voted no
Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ voted no
Robert Likens Condon D-CA voted no
George Paul Miller D-CA voted no
Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA voted no
Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
John Leonard Pilcher D-GA voted no
Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA voted no
Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
Brent Spence D-KY voted no
Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
John William Mccormack D-MA voted no
Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted no
George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI voted no
Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
John David Dingell D-MI voted no
John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted no
Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
Richard Walker Bolling D-MO voted no
Clarence Andrew Cannon 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
William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT voted no
Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND 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
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted no
James George Donovan D-NY voted no
Arthur George Klein D-NY voted no
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. D-NY voted no
Sidney Asher Fine D-NY voted no
Isidore Dollinger D-NY voted no
Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY voted no
Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted no
Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted no
Robert Crosser D-OH voted no
Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK voted no
Carl Bert Albert D-OK voted no
Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK voted no
George Milton Rhodes D-PA voted no
Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA voted no
Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA voted no
Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA voted no
Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA voted no
Aime Joseph Forand D-RI voted no
James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN voted no
Joseph Landon Evins D-TN voted no
Jere Cooper D-TN voted no
John William Wright Patman D-TX voted no
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX voted no
Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted no
Martin Dies Jr. D-TX voted no
William Adams Dawson R-UT 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
William Munford Tuck D-VA voted no
Burr Powell Harrison D-VA voted no
Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA voted no
Lester Roland Johnson D-WI voted no
Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV voted no
Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV voted no

And 1 more.

The bill

H.R. 8300: To revise the internal-revenue laws of the United States

How each representative voted: Yes

Frank William Boykin D-AL
Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
William Frank Norrell 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
John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
Craig Hosmer R-CA
John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
Samuel William Yorty D-CA
Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
James Boyd Utt 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
Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
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
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
Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
James Curran Davis D-GA
Phillip Mitchell Landrum 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
James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
William Levi Dawson D-IL
Barratt O'Hara D-IL
Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
William Estus Mcvey R-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
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
Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
William Lee Springer R-IL
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
Charles Melvin Price D-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
William Gilmer Bray 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
Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
Overton Brooks D-LA
Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
John Walter Heselton R-MA
Edward Patrick Boland 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
Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
George Hyde Fallon D-MD
Frank Small Jr. R-MD
DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
Robert Hale R-ME
Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
George Meader R-MI
Paul Werntz Shafer 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
Roy William Wier D-MN
Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
Walter Henry Judd 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
William Clay Cole R-MO
Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
John Bell Williams D-MS
William Meyers Colmer D-MS
Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
George Adams Shuford D-NC
Otto Krueger R-ND
Roman Lee Hruska 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
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
Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
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
Lester Holtzman D-NY
James Joseph Delaney D-NY
Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
John Henry Ray R-NY
Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
Paul Albert Fino R-NY
Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
James Ernest Wharton R-NY
Leo William O'Brien D-NY
Dean Park Taylor R-NY
Bernard William (Pat) Kearney 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
Edmund Patrick Radwan 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
James Gould Polk D-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
Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
George Harrison Bender R-OH
Page Henry Belcher R-OK
Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
John Jarman D-OK
Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
Mathew Harris Ellsworth 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
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
Karl Clarence King R-PA
Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
Edward John Bonin R-PA
Ivor David Fenton R-PA
Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-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
John Edward Fogarty D-RI
Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
John Jacob Riley D-SC
William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
Robert Thomas Ashmore 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
Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
Albert Thomas D-TX
Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
William Homer Thornberry D-TX
William Robert Poage 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
Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
Douglas R. Stringfellow 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
Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
Clement John Zablocki D-WI
Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
William Elmer Neal R-WV

How each representative voted: No

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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