House roll call 83 · 84th Congress · Mar 1, 1956
HR 3383. Colorado river irrigation and reclamation project. Passed.
On Mar 1, 1956, the House voted 256–136 (HR 3383). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 147–72, Republicans 121–76. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 148 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
- 256
- No
- 136
- Did not vote
- 4
- Date
- Mar 1, 1956
By party
- Democrats147 yes · 72 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans121 yes · 76 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted no
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA voted no
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted no
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA voted no
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted no
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Craig Hosmer R-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA voted no
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA voted no
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA voted no
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA voted no
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA voted no
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA voted no
- James Roosevelt D-CA voted no
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- John Phillips R-CA voted no
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID voted no
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted no
- James Cunningham Murray D-IL voted no
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL voted no
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL voted no
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
- William Lee Springer R-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD voted no
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted no
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Ruth Thompson R-MI voted no
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN voted no
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten 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
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley 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
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE voted no
And 68 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews 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
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays 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
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-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
- 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
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum 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
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-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
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins 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
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- 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
- 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
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Donald Hayworth D-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. 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
- 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
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton 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
- 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
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-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
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn 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
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor 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
- 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
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson 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
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-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
- John Junior Bell D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- 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
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- 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
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-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
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- 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
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- 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
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley 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
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion 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
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- 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
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
Voted present
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
Did not vote
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- John David Dingell D-MI
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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