S 1520. Authorize funds for reconstruction of dam no. 3 on little kanawha river west VI rginia. Mack motion to recommit bill to conference with instructions t

On Aug 20, 1957, the House voted 137–232 (S 1520). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 4–212, Republicans 150–37. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 41 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: 137
No: 232
Did not vote: 10
Date: Aug 20, 1957

By party

Democrats4 yes · 212 no · 7 didn’t vote
Republicans150 yes · 37 no · 3 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA voted no
John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted no
Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted no
James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted no
James Curran Davis D-GA voted yes
Russell Watson Keeney R-IL voted no
Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
Wint Smith R-KS voted no
Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD voted no
August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI voted no
Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted no
John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
August Herman Andresen R-MN voted no
Fred Marshall D-MN voted yes
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted no
Dean Park Taylor R-NY voted no
William Emil Hess R-OH voted no
Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
Jackson Edward Betts R-OH voted no
Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted no
John Earl Henderson R-OH voted no
Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted no
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA voted no
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted no
John Phillips Saylor 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
Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted yes
William Munford Tuck D-VA voted yes
Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA voted no
Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA voted no
Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV voted no
William Elmer Neal R-WV voted no
Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY voted no

The bill

S. 1520: A bill to amend an act entitled An act to provide for the disposal of federally owned property at obsolescent canalized waterways, and for other purposes.

How each representative voted: Yes

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
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
Albert William Cretella R-CT
Albert Paul Morano R-CT
Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE
William Cato Cramer R-FL
James Curran Davis 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
Noah Morgan Mason 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
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
Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
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
Robert Hale R-ME
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
George Meader 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
William S. Broomfield R-MI
Walter Henry Judd R-MN
Fred Marshall D-MN
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
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
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
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
Bernard William (Pat) Kearney 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
Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
Cliff Clevenger R-OH
David Short Dennison R-OH
John Martin Vorys R-OH
Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
William Hanes Ayres R-OH
J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
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
Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
William Adams Dawson R-UT
Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
William Munford Tuck D-VA
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
Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
Donald Edgar Tewes R-WI
Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI

How each representative voted: No

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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