HR 7915. Amend U.S. Code to restrict use of FBI files by defendants in criminal cases thus limiting effect of supreme court ruling in jencks decision. Passe

On Aug 27, 1957, the House voted 351–17 (HR 7915). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 185–17, Republicans 166–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 17 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: 351
No: 17
Did not vote: 10
Date: Aug 27, 1957

By party

Democrats185 yes · 17 no · 7 didn’t vote
Republicans166 yes · 0 no · 3 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted no
Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
Frank Morey Coffin D-ME voted no
Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN voted no
John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN voted no
Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted no
Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT voted no
LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT voted no
Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ voted no
Eugene James Keogh D-NY voted no
Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY voted no
Ludwig Teller D-NY voted no
Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH voted no
Charles Orlando Porter D-OR voted no
George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

Frank William Boykin D-AL
George McInvale Grant D-AL
George William Andrews 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
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
Clair Engle D-CA
John Emerson Moss D-CA
John Francis Shelley D-CA
John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
Craig Hosmer R-CA
Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
James Roosevelt D-CA
Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
James Boyd Utt R-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
Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-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
Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE
William Cato Cramer R-FL
Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
Dante Bruno Fascell 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
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
Harold Royce Gross R-IA
Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
Merwin Coad D-IA
Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL
William Estus Mcvey R-IL
John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
Russell Watson Keeney 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
Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
William Lee Springer R-IL
Charles Melvin Price D-IL
Kenneth James Gray D-IL
Ray John Madden D-IN
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
F. Jay Nimtz R-IN
Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
Earl Wilson R-IN
Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
William Henry Avery R-KS
Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
James Floyd Breeding D-KS
Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
William Huston Natcher D-KY
Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
Brent Spence D-KY
John Clarence Watts D-KY
Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
Overton Brooks D-LA
Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
George Shannon Long 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
Torbert Hart Macdonald 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
Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
George Hyde Fallon D-MD
Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
Robert Hale R-ME
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
George Meader R-MI
August Edgar Johansen 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
Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
William S. Broomfield R-MI
August Herman Andresen R-MN
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
Walter Henry Judd R-MN
Fred Marshall D-MN
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
George Henry Christopher D-MO
Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan 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
Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
Lawrence H. Fountain 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
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
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
Vincent John Dellay R-NJ
Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
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
James Joseph Delaney 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
Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY
Leonard Farbstein D-NY
Herbert Zelenko D-NY
James Christopher Healey D-NY
Isidore Dollinger D-NY
Paul Albert Fino 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
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
James Gould Polk D-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
Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
William Edwin Minshall Jr. 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
Toby Morris D-OK
Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan D-PA
James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
Earl Chudoff D-PA
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
George Milton Rhodes 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
Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
John Phillips Saylor R-PA
Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
James Grove Fulton R-PA
Robert James Corbett R-PA
Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
John Edward Fogarty D-RI
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
John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
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
Ross Bass D-TN
Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
Jere Cooper D-TN
Clifford Davis D-TN
John William Wright Patman D-TX
Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
Olin Earl Teague D-TX
John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
Albert Thomas D-TX
Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
William Homer Thornberry D-TX
William Robert Poage D-TX
James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
John Andrew Young D-TX
Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
J. T. Rutherford D-TX
Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
George Herman Mahon D-TX
Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
William Adams Dawson R-UT
Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
William Munford Tuck D-VA
Richard Harding Poff R-VA
Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
Howard Worth Smith D-VA
William Pat Jennings 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
Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
Donald Hammer Magnuson D-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
Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
William Elmer Neal R-WV
Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY

How each representative voted: No

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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