House roll call 66 · 84th Congress · Jul 26, 1955
H RES 314. Authorize consideration of federal-state highway construction bill (HR 7474) under modified open rule prohibiting amendments to tax section. Adopte
On Jul 26, 1955, the House voted 274–129 (HRE 314). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 126–98, Republicans 153–36. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 134 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
- 274
- No
- 129
- Did not vote
- 3
- Date
- Jul 26, 1955
By party
- Democrats126 yes · 98 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans153 yes · 36 no
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted no
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Clair Engle D-CA voted no
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted no
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted no
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA voted no
- John Phillips R-CA voted no
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted no
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT 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
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham 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 no
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY 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
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted no
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD voted no
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI voted no
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon 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
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley 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
- 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
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ voted no
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM voted no
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted no
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY voted no
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY voted no
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
And 54 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-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
- Charles McKevett Teague R-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
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson 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
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- 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
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck 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
- 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
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland 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
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon 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
- 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
- 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 D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-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
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Charles Bennett Deane 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
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- 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
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Thomas James Tumulty D-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch 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
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts 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
- J. Harry Mcgregor 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
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- Burr Powell Harrison 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
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-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
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- 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
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Wint Smith R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Clarence Andrew Cannon 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
- Harold Dunbar Cooley 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
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham 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
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- 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
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- John Junior Bell D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- 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
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
Voted present
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
Did not vote
Other votes
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