House roll call 17 · 86th Congress · May 7, 1959
HR 3460. Authorize TVA to issue revenue bonds to finance new power facilities. Motion to recommit with instructions to increase control by executive agencies
On May 7, 1959, the House voted 182–231 (HR 3460). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 41–232, Republicans 147–4, Others 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 45 members voted against their own party.
During the 86th Congress (1959–1960), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 182
- No
- 231
- Did not vote
- 9
- Date
- May 7, 1959
By party
- Democrats41 yes · 232 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
- Republicans147 yes · 4 no · 5 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT voted yes
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted yes
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT voted yes
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted yes
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL voted yes
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted yes
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted yes
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted yes
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted yes
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted yes
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted yes
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA voted yes
- James Anthony Burke D-MA voted yes
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted yes
- Ralph James Scott D-NC voted yes
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY voted yes
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH voted yes
- Daniel John Flood D-PA voted yes
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted yes
- John Herman Dent D-PA voted yes
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA voted yes
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA voted yes
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI voted yes
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN voted no
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN voted no
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX voted yes
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX voted yes
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA voted yes
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA voted yes
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted yes
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted yes
- William Munford Tuck D-VA voted yes
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA voted yes
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted yes
- William Pat Jennings D-VA voted yes
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA voted no
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI voted yes
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV voted yes
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV voted yes
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV voted yes
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV voted yes
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV voted yes
The bill
H.R. 3460: To amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933, as amended, and for other purposes
How each representative voted: Yes
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Finley Baldwin 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
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Edna Oakes Simpson R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Clifford Guy Mcintire 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
- 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
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Milton Willits Glenn 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
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Jessica McCullough Weis R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- John Armand Lafore Jr. R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Herman Dent 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
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing 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
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- 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
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Thomas Dale Alford O-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- George Albert Kasem D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Byron Lindberg Johnson D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Chester Bliss Bowles D-CT
- Donald Jay Irwin D-CT
- Frank Kowalski D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Harlan Erwin Mitchell D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Leonard George Wolf D-IA
- Steven V. Carter D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Fred Wampler D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Lee Hogan D-IN
- Randall S. Harmon D-IN
- Joseph Walker Barr D-IN
- Newell Adolphus George D-KS
- Denver David Hargis D-KS
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Welsh Burke 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
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- John Robert Foley D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver D-ME
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon 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
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- David McKee Hall D-NC
- Quentin Northrup Burdick D-ND
- Lawrence Brock D-NE
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- 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
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney 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
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
- Robert Eugene Cook D-OH
- Robert Woodrow Levering D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- 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
- 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
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Herman Toll D-PA
- Stanley A. Prokop D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- 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
- George Stanley Mcgovern D-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
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. 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
- 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
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- David Sjodahl King D-UT
- William Henry Meyer D-VT
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Gerald Thomas Flynn D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
Voted present
Did not vote
- Daniel Ken Inouye D-HI
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Douglas Hemphill Elliott R-PA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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