HR 8320. Extend for 90 days the school milk and brucellosis -eradication programs. Conference report. Rejected.

On Mar 21, 1956, the House voted 195–215 (HR 8320). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 204–23, Republicans 0–201. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 23 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: 195
No: 215
Did not vote: 4
Date: Mar 21, 1956

By party

Democrats204 yes · 23 no · 3 didn’t vote
Republicans0 yes · 201 no · 1 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT voted no
Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted no
Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL voted no
Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN voted no
Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted no
Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted no
Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ voted no
Antonio M. Fernández D-NM voted no
James George Donovan D-NY voted no
Leo William O'Brien D-NY voted no
Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH voted no
Edith Starrett Green D-OR voted no
George Milton Rhodes D-PA voted no
Frank Monroe Clark D-PA voted no
John Edward Fogarty D-RI voted no
Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted no
Jere Cooper D-TN voted no
Clifford Davis D-TN voted no
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI voted no

The bill

H.R. 8320: To amend the Agricultural Act of 1949 and the Agricultural Act of 1954 with respect to the special school-milk program and the brucellosis eradication program for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1956.

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
William Somers Mailliard R-CA
John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
Justin Leroy Johnson 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
John Phillips R-CA
Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
William Silas Hill R-CO
John Edgar Chenoweth R-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
William Cato Cramer R-FL
Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
Harold Royce Gross 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
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
Barratt O'Hara D-IL
William Estus Mcvey R-IL
Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
Richard William Hoffman R-IL
Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
Marguerite Stitt Church 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
Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
William Lee Springer R-IL
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. 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
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
Wint Smith R-KS
John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
Eugene Siler R-KY
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
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
Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
George Meader R-MI
August Edgar Johansen R-MI
Clare Eugene Hoffman 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
George Anthony Dondero R-MI
August Herman Andresen R-MN
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
Walter Henry Judd R-MN
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
Otto Krueger R-ND
Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
Jackson Burton Chase 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
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
William Beck Widnall R-NJ
Gordon Canfield R-NJ
Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
Antonio M. Fernández 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
Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
John Henry Ray R-NY
Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
James George Donovan D-NY
Paul Albert Fino R-NY
Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
James Ernest Wharton 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
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
Daniel Alden Reed 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
Clarence J. Brown R-OH
Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
Thomas Albert Jenkins 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
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
Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
Edith Starrett Green D-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
Ivor David Fenton R-PA
Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
George Milton Rhodes D-PA
Walter Mann Mumma 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
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
James Grove Fulton R-PA
Robert James Corbett R-PA
John Edward Fogarty D-RI
Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
Jere Cooper D-TN
Clifford Davis D-TN
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
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
Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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