House roll call 52 · 84th Congress · Jun 27, 1955
HR 6992. Extend temporary increase in public debt limit one year. Passed.
On Jun 27, 1955, the House voted 267–56 (HR 6992). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 134–43, Republicans 134–13. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 56 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
- 267
- No
- 56
- Did not vote
- 3
- Date
- Jun 27, 1955
By party
- Democrats134 yes · 43 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans134 yes · 13 no
Who broke with their party
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- John Phillips R-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted no
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy 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
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted no
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
- George Adams Shuford D-NC voted no
- Otto Krueger R-ND voted no
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE voted no
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY voted no
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA voted no
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC voted no
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN voted no
- Ross Bass D-TN voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted no
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX voted no
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX voted no
- Albert Thomas D-TX voted no
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX voted no
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX voted no
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX voted no
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX voted no
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX voted no
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA voted no
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted no
- William Munford Tuck D-VA voted no
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA voted no
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI voted no
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV voted no
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV voted no
The bill
H.R. 6992: To extend for 1 year the existing temporary increase in the public debt limit
How each representative voted: Yes
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- 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
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin 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
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough 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
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-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
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Paul Brown 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
- 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
- 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
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. 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
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- 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
- 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
- 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
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Donald Hayworth D-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik 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
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. 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
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- 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
- 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
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- John Junior Bell D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-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
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Lester Holtzman 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
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn 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
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
Did not vote
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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