HR 2. Authorize increased diversion of water from lake michigan to illinois waterway. Motion to recommit. Yea supports President's position.

On May 22, 1957, the House voted 143–225 (HR 2). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 13–201, Republicans 147–41. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 54 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: 143
No: 225
Did not vote: 10
Date: May 22, 1957

By party

Democrats13 yes · 201 no · 6 didn’t vote
Republicans147 yes · 41 no · 4 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted no
John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted no
James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted no
Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT voted no
Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL voted no
William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
Harold Reginald Collier R-IL voted no
Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL voted no
Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
Russell Watson Keeney R-IL voted no
Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted no
Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
William Lee Springer R-IL voted no
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
Wint Smith R-KS voted no
John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY voted no
Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME voted no
Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted yes
John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted yes
John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted yes
Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted yes
Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted no
Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE voted no
Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted no
James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted no
William Beck Widnall R-NJ voted no
Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted no
Vincent John Dellay R-NJ voted no
James Gould Polk D-OH voted yes
Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH voted yes
Wayne Levere Hays D-OH voted yes
Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted yes
Charles Albert Vanik D-OH voted yes
Page Henry Belcher R-OK voted no
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA voted no
Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA voted no
Ivor David Fenton R-PA voted no
Walter Mann Mumma R-PA voted no
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA voted no
Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA voted no
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted no
Leon Harry Gavin R-PA voted no
James Grove Fulton R-PA voted no
Robert James Corbett R-PA voted no
Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX voted yes
William Adams Dawson R-UT voted no
Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA voted no
Clement John Zablocki D-WI voted yes
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI voted yes
Lester Roland Johnson D-WI voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

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
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
Edwin Hyland May Jr. R-CT
Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
Albert William Cretella R-CT
Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE
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
Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
Sidney Elmer Simpson 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
John Walter Heselton R-MA
William Henry Bates R-MA
Laurence Curtis R-MA
Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
Robert Hale 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
Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
William S. Broomfield R-MI
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
Otto Krueger R-ND
Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
Perkins Bass R-NH
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
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
Paul Albert Fino R-NY
Edwin Benedict Dooley 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
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
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
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
Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
John Phillips Saylor R-PA
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
Richard Harding Poff 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
Clement John Zablocki D-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
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
William Elmer Neal R-WV
Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY

How each representative voted: No

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

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