House roll call 2 · 85th Congress · Jan 29, 1957
H RES 123. Closed rule permitting consideration of H. J. RES. 117 (CQ 3) eisenhower m id-east doctrine. Agreed to. Yea supports President's position.
On Jan 29, 1957, the House voted 262–146 (HRE 123). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 120–99, Republicans 146–51. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 150 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
- 262
- No
- 146
- Did not vote
- 11
- Date
- Jan 29, 1957
By party
- Democrats120 yes · 99 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans146 yes · 51 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ voted no
- Clair Engle D-CA voted no
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted no
- John Francis Shelley D-CA voted no
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA voted no
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- H. Allen Smith R-CA voted no
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA voted no
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA voted no
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA voted no
- James Roosevelt D-CA voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO 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
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews 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
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID voted no
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID voted no
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
- Russell Watson Keeney R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN voted no
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted no
- George Shannon Long D-LA voted no
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted no
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD voted no
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI voted no
- George Meader R-MI voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI voted no
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted no
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted no
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN voted no
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted no
- Morgan Moore Moulder 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
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Ralph James Scott D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted no
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC voted no
And 70 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston 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
- 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
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser 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
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- 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
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher 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
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-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
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- 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
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison 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
- 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
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Robert John Mcintosh R-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall 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
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison 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
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Vincent John Dellay R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley 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
- 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
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- David Short Dennison R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton 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
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-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
- Daniel John Flood D-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
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- 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
- Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary 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
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- 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
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Russell Watson Keeney R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder 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
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- Ludwig Teller D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer 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
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Charles Orlando Porter D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Donald Edgar Tewes R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- William Elmer Neal R-WV
Voted present
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
Did not vote
Other votes
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