H RES 85. Authorize an investigation of national monetary and credit policies by house banking and currency committee. Rejected. Nay supports President's posi

On Mar 27, 1957, the House voted 174–225 (HRE 85). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 183–40, Republicans 3–197. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 43 members voted against their own party.

During the 85th Congress (1957–1958), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 174
No: 225
Did not vote: 11
Date: Mar 27, 1957

By party

Democrats183 yes · 40 no · 7 didn’t vote
Republicans3 yes · 197 no · 4 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

George William Andrews D-AL voted no
William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
Robert Lee Fulton Sikes 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
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
Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA voted no
Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
Felix Edward Hébert D-LA 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
Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
Ralph James Scott D-NC voted no
Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC voted no
Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted no
Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
John Joseph Dempsey D-NM voted no
Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted yes
Leo William O'Brien D-NY voted no
John Jarman D-OK voted no
Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted no
Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
John Jacob Riley D-SC voted no
William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC voted no
Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC voted no
Ross Bass D-TN voted no
Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted no
Albert Thomas D-TX voted no
Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA voted no
Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted no
Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted no
William Munford Tuck D-VA voted no
Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

George William Andrews D-AL
William Frank Norrell D-AR
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
Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
Craig Hosmer R-CA
H. Allen Smith 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
William Silas Hill R-CO
John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
Edwin Hyland May Jr. R-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
Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE
William Cato Cramer R-FL
Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
James Andrew Haley D-FL
Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
James Curran Davis D-GA
Carl Vinson D-GA
Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
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
Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL
William Estus Mcvey R-IL
Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
Russell Watson Keeney R-IL
Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
Robert Henry Michel R-IL
Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
William Lee Springer R-IL
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
F. Jay Nimtz R-IN
Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
John Valentine Beamer R-IN
Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
William Gilmer Bray R-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
Wint Smith R-KS
Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
Eugene Siler R-KY
Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
John Walter Heselton R-MA
Edith Nourse Rogers 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
August Edgar Johansen R-MI
Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
Robert John Mcintosh R-MI
Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
William S. Broomfield 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
Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
John Bell Williams D-MS
William Arthur Winstead D-MS
William Meyers Colmer D-MS
Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
Ralph James Scott D-NC
Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
Otto Krueger R-ND
Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
Glenn Clarence Cunningham 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
James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
William Beck Widnall R-NJ
Gordon Canfield R-NJ
Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
Vincent John Dellay R-NJ
John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
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
Edwin Benedict Dooley 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 Albert Jenkins R-OH
David Short Dennison 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
John Jarman D-OK
Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
Ivor David Fenton R-PA
Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
John Phillips Saylor R-PA
Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
James Grove Fulton R-PA
Robert James Corbett R-PA
Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
John Jacob Riley D-SC
William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
Ross Bass D-TN
Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
Albert Thomas D-TX
Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
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
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
Donald Edgar Tewes R-WI
Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
William Elmer Neal R-WV
Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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Capitol Receipts, “H RES 85. Authorize an investigation of…: House Vote, Mar 27, 1957,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/85-H-12/h-res-85-authorize-an-investigation-of-national-monetary (accessed 2026-10-17).