HR 6763. Amend PL 704 83rd Congress, to allow construction of tunnel from d.c. To virginia. Davis motion to resume debate. Agreed to.

On Aug 2, 1957, the House voted 275–59 (HR 6763). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 154–24, Republicans 121–36. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 60 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: 275
No: 59
Did not vote: 11
Date: Aug 2, 1957

By party

Democrats154 yes · 24 no · 7 didn’t vote
Republicans121 yes · 36 no · 4 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA voted no
Donald Lester Jackson R-CA voted no
Craig Hosmer R-CA voted no
Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA voted no
James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
Byron Giles Rogers D-CO voted no
Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted no
Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
Merwin Coad D-IA voted no
Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID voted no
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID voted no
William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
Harold Reginald Collier R-IL voted no
Russell Watson Keeney R-IL voted no
Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
Edward Herbert Rees R-KS voted no
William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY voted no
Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted no
Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI voted no
August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI voted no
Robert John Mcintosh R-MI voted no
Robert Paul Griffin R-MI voted no
Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted no
William S. Broomfield R-MI voted no
Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
Charles Harrison Brown D-MO voted no
Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO voted no
Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE voted no
Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ voted no
Albert Henry Bosch R-NY voted no
John James Rooney D-NY voted no
Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY voted no
William Robert Williams R-NY voted no
John Taber R-NY voted no
Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY voted no
Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH voted no
Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH voted no
Jackson Edward Betts R-OH voted no
Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH voted no
John Earl Henderson R-OH voted no
Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted no
Wayne Levere Hays D-OH voted no
Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted no
Edith Starrett Green D-OR voted no
William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA voted no
Albert Thomas D-TX voted no
John Andrew Young D-TX voted no
Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted no
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI voted no
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI voted no
John William Byrnes R-WI voted no
Lester Roland Johnson D-WI voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Voted present

Frank William Boykin D-AL
Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
Clair Engle D-CA
William Somers Mailliard R-CA
John Francis Shelley D-CA
Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
James Roosevelt D-CA
Edwin Hyland May Jr. R-CT
Albert Paul Morano R-CT
James Thomas Patterson R-CT
Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE
Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
Carl Vinson D-GA
Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
William Levi Dawson D-IL
Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
John Valentine Beamer R-IN
James Floyd Breeding D-KS
John Clarence Watts D-KY
Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
James Hobson Morrison D-LA
Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
Walter Henry Judd R-MN
Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
Ralph James Scott D-NC
Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
Perkins Bass R-NH
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
Frank John Becker R-NY
Henry Jepson Latham 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
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
Leonard Farbstein D-NY
Ludwig Teller D-NY
Herbert Zelenko D-NY
James Christopher Healey D-NY
Isidore Dollinger D-NY
Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
Paul Albert Fino R-NY
Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
Leo William O'Brien D-NY
Dean Park Taylor R-NY
Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
John Raymond Pillion R-NY
Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
William Emil Hess R-OH
William Hanes Ayres R-OH
William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
Earl Chudoff D-PA
Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
Ivor David Fenton R-PA
Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
John Edward Fogarty D-RI
Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
Olin Earl Teague D-TX
William Adams Dawson R-UT
Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
Clement John Zablocki D-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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