HR 9893. Military construction bill. Motion to recommit conference report. Rejected.

On Jul 9, 1956, the House voted 29–343 (HR 9893). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 5–188, Republicans 24–155. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 29 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: 29
No: 343
Did not vote: 5
Date: Jul 9, 1956

By party

Democrats5 yes · 188 no · 4 didn’t vote
Republicans24 yes · 155 no · 1 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted yes
Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted yes
John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted yes
Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted yes
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted yes
Myron Virgil George R-KS voted yes
John Walter Heselton R-MA voted yes
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted yes
Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI voted yes
Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI voted yes
Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted yes
John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted yes
Roy William Wier D-MN voted yes
Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
Fred Marshall D-MN voted yes
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted yes
Jackson Burton Chase R-NE voted yes
Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted yes
Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted yes
Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted yes
William Edward Miller R-NY voted yes
Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted yes
Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH voted yes
Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR voted yes
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI voted yes
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI voted yes
John William Byrnes R-WI voted yes
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Voted present

George McInvale Grant D-AL
William Frank Norrell D-AR
Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
William Somers Mailliard R-CA
Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
William Levi Dawson D-IL
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
Overton Brooks D-LA
Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
August Edgar Johansen R-MI
Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
Otto Krueger R-ND
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
William Beck Widnall R-NJ
Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
Arthur George Klein D-NY
Irwin Delmore Davidson D-NY
Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
Dean Park Taylor R-NY
Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
Ross Bass D-TN
Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
Clifford Davis D-TN
John William Wright Patman D-TX
Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
William Homer Thornberry D-TX
John Junior Bell D-TX
Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
George Herman Mahon D-TX
Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
Glenn Robert Davis R-WI

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “HR 9893. Military construction bill. Motion…: House Vote, Jul 9, 1956,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/84-H-126/hr-9893-military-construction-bill-motion-to-recommit-conference (accessed 2026-10-17).