House roll call 50 · 84th Congress · Jun 22, 1955
HR 6040. Customs simplification. Amend 1930 tariff act to improve valuation of imports procedure. Simpson motion to recommit with instructions to delete sect
On Jun 22, 1955, the House voted 143–232 (HR 6040). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 59–152, Republicans 89–85. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 144 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
- 143
- No
- 232
- Did not vote
- 3
- Date
- Jun 22, 1955
By party
- Democrats59 yes · 152 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans89 yes · 85 no
Who broke with their party
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted yes
- George William Andrews D-AL voted yes
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted yes
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted yes
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted yes
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted yes
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted no
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA voted no
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA voted no
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA voted no
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted no
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted no
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA voted no
- Craig Hosmer R-CA voted no
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted no
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA voted no
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA voted no
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA voted no
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO voted yes
- William Silas Hill R-CO voted no
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT voted no
- William Cato Cramer R-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted yes
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA voted yes
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted yes
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted yes
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted yes
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA voted yes
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA voted yes
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted yes
- Paul Brown D-GA voted yes
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted no
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted no
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL voted yes
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL voted no
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- William Lee Springer R-IL voted no
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted no
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN voted no
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN voted no
- Ralph Harvey R-IN voted no
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN voted no
- William Henry Avery R-KS voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS voted no
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted yes
- George Shannon Long D-LA voted yes
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted yes
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted yes
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted yes
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted yes
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted yes
- Laurence Curtis R-MA voted no
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA voted yes
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted no
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted no
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD voted no
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD voted no
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted yes
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted no
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI voted no
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI voted no
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted no
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted yes
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted yes
And 64 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Andrew Haley 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
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- 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
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead 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
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Thomas James Tumulty D-NJ
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- 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
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Russell Vernon Mack 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
- 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
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger 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
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-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
- 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
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-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
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Donald Hayworth D-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-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
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Charles Anderson Wolverton 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
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker 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
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Irwin Delmore Davidson D-NY
- Sidney Asher Fine 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
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-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
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard 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
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- 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
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- George Meader R-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- John Junior Bell D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
Did not vote
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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