House roll call 137 · 84th Congress · Jul 23, 1956
S 1644. Construction contract act. Prescribe policy and procedure for construction contracts made by executive agencies. Motion to suspend the rules and pass
On Jul 23, 1956, the House voted 246–145 (S 1644). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 151–60, Republicans 105–90. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 150 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
- 246
- No
- 145
- Did not vote
- 5
- Date
- Jul 23, 1956
By party
- Democrats151 yes · 60 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Republicans105 yes · 90 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
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ voted no
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA voted no
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA voted no
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- John Phillips R-CA voted no
- William Silas Hill R-CO voted no
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers 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
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted no
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted no
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- William Lee Springer R-IL voted no
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted no
- William Henry Avery R-KS voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Myron Virgil George R-KS voted no
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted no
- Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD voted no
- George Meader R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI voted no
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI voted no
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted no
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy 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
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted no
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted no
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
- George Adams Shuford D-NC voted no
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE voted no
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE voted no
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE voted no
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE voted no
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted no
- Perkins Bass R-NH voted no
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ voted no
And 70 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston 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
- 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
- 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
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague 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
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-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
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- James Cunningham Murray D-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
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-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
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- 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
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-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
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller 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
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Donald Hayworth D-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy 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
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-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
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- 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
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-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
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-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
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan 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
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- John Junior Bell D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-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
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers 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
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Richard William Hoffman 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
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- George Meader R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- 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
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- 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
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-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
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
Voted present
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Did not vote
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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