H RES 299. Grant additional funds to the select committee on small business for its investigations. Adopted.

On Aug 1, 1955, the House voted 231–134 (HRE 299). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 219–4, Republicans 34–152. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 38 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: 231
No: 134
Did not vote: 3
Date: Aug 1, 1955

By party

Democrats219 yes · 4 no · 3 didn’t vote
Republicans34 yes · 152 no

Who broke with their party

William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted yes
Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA voted yes
William Silas Hill R-CO voted yes
Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted yes
Albert Paul Morano R-CT voted yes
Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted yes
Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted yes
William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted yes
Richard William Hoffman R-IL voted yes
Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted yes
John Valentine Beamer R-IN voted yes
Cecil Murray Harden R-IN voted yes
William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted yes
Earl Wilson R-IN voted yes
Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN voted yes
Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted yes
August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted yes
Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted yes
Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted no
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted yes
Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted no
Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY voted yes
John Henry Ray R-NY voted yes
Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY voted yes
Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted yes
William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted yes
Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH voted yes
John Earl Henderson R-OH voted yes
John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted yes
James Grove Fulton R-PA voted yes
Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
Brady Preston Gentry D-TX voted no
Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA voted yes
Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI voted yes
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
Craig Hosmer R-CA
John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
James Boyd Utt R-CA
Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
Albert William Cretella R-CT
James Thomas Patterson R-CT
Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
William Cato Cramer R-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
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
Chauncey William Reed 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
Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
William Lee Springer R-IL
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
Ralph Harvey R-IN
William Henry Avery R-KS
Myron Virgil George R-KS
Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
Wint Smith R-KS
Eugene Siler R-KY
John Walter Heselton R-MA
William Henry Bates R-MA
Donald William Nicholson R-MA
Laurence Curtis R-MA
Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
Robert Hale R-ME
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
George Meader R-MI
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
Alvin Morell Bentley 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
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT
Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
Otto Krueger R-ND
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
Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
William Beck Widnall R-NJ
Gordon Canfield R-NJ
Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
Frank John Becker R-NY
Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
Katharine Price Collier St. George 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
Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
William Edward Miller R-NY
Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
John Raymond Pillion R-NY
Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
William Emil Hess R-OH
Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
Clarence J. Brown R-OH
Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
John Martin Vorys R-OH
William Hanes Ayres R-OH
Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
Page Henry Belcher R-OK
Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
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
Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
William Adams Dawson R-UT
Richard Harding Poff R-VA
Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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