HR 6672. Increase the public debt limit. On motion to recommit.

On Jul 31, 1953, the House voted 173–225 (HR 6672). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 2–210, Democrats 180–23, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 25 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: 173
No: 225
Did not vote: 6
Date: Jul 31, 1953

By party

Democrats180 yes · 23 no · 5 didn’t vote
Republicans2 yes · 210 no · 1 didn’t vote
Independents0 yes · 1 no

Who broke with their party

Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
Byron Giles Rogers D-CO voted no
Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
John Carl Kluczynski D-IL voted no
Howard Shultz Miller D-KS voted no
George Shannon Long D-LA voted no
Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted no
Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted no
Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA voted no
John William Mccormack D-MA voted no
John David Dingell D-MI voted no
John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted no
Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
Leo William O'Brien D-NY voted no
Dean Park Taylor R-NY voted yes
Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY voted yes
Carl Bert Albert D-OK voted no
Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
Jere Cooper D-TN voted no
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX voted no

The bill

H.R. 6672: To increase the public debt limit

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Frank William Boykin D-AL
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
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
Patrick Jerome Hillings R-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
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
Carl Vinson 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
Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
William Estus Mcvey R-IL
John Carl Kluczynski 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
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
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
John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
James Stephen Golden R-KY
George Shannon Long 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
Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-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
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
John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
John David Dingell D-MI
John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
Charles Gibb Oakman R-MI
George Anthony Dondero R-MI
August Herman Andresen R-MN
Walter Henry Judd R-MN
Fred Marshall D-MN
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
Jeffrey Paul Hillelson R-MO
William Clay Cole R-MO
Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
Otto Krueger R-ND
Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
Roman Lee Hruska R-NE
Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
Norris H. Cotton R-NH
Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
William Beck Widnall R-NJ
Gordon Canfield R-NJ
Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
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
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
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
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
William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
Cliff Clevenger R-OH
Clarence J. Brown R-OH
Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
Henry Frazier Reams I-OH
Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
John Martin Vorys R-OH
Alvin F. Weichel 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
Carl Bert Albert D-OK
Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
Karl Clarence King R-PA
Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
Edward John Bonin R-PA
Ivor David Fenton R-PA
Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
Walter Mann Mumma 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
Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
Jere Cooper D-TN
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn 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
Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Gardner Robert Withrow R-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
William Elmer Neal R-WV
William Henry Harrison R-WY

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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