House roll call 102 · 84th Congress · May 18, 1956
HR 8901. D. C. Transit. Return franchise of capital transit company, d. C. To owners . Motion to recommit. Rejected.
On May 18, 1956, the House voted 161–172 (HR 8901). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 125–98, Republicans 70–108. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 168 members voted against their own party.
During the 84th Congress (1955–1956), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 161
- No
- 172
- Did not vote
- 4
- Date
- May 18, 1956
By party
- Democrats125 yes · 98 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans70 yes · 108 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted no
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. 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
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted yes
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted yes
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA voted yes
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted yes
- Craig Hosmer R-CA voted yes
- John Phillips R-CA voted yes
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted yes
- Albert William Cretella R-CT voted yes
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT voted yes
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted yes
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted no
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted no
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA voted no
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- Iris Faircloth Blitch 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 Estus Mcvey R-IL voted yes
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL voted yes
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted yes
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA voted no
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted no
- George Shannon Long D-LA voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted yes
- William Henry Bates R-MA voted yes
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD voted yes
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD voted yes
- George Meader R-MI voted yes
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted yes
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted yes
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI voted yes
- Ruth Thompson R-MI voted yes
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted yes
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- 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
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted no
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC voted no
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted no
And 88 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-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
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- James Cunningham Murray D-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
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- 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
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Donald Hayworth D-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Thomas James Tumulty D-NJ
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso 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
- Irwin Delmore Davidson D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Edith Starrett Green D-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
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- 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
- 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 Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. 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
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham 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
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
- 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
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- 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
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague 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
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- John Junior Bell D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford 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
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- 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
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
Voted present
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
Did not vote
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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Capitol Receipts, “HR 8901. D. C. Transit. Return franchise of…: House Vote, May 18, 1956,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/84-H-102/hr-8901-d-c-transit-return-franchise-of-capital (accessed 2026-10-17).