HR 2256. Veterans housing bill. Increase amount of funds the veterans administration can draw for housing loans, and raise interest rate ceilings on guarantee

On Feb 4, 1959, the House voted 123–277 (HR 2256). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 2–258, Republicans 123–20, Others 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 22 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: 123
No: 277
Did not vote: 9
Date: Feb 4, 1959

By party

Democrats2 yes · 258 no · 5 didn’t vote
Others0 yes · 1 no
Republicans123 yes · 20 no · 4 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted no
William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted yes
Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted no
John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted no
Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted no
Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted no
Seymour Halpern R-NY voted no
Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY voted no
Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted no
Leo William O'Brien D-NY voted yes
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted no
John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted no
Leon Harry Gavin R-PA voted no
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA voted no
James Grove Fulton R-PA voted no
Robert James Corbett R-PA voted no
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no
Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV voted no

The bill

H.R. 2256: To amend chapter 37 of title 38, United States Code, to provide additional funds for direct loans to remove certain requirements with respect to the rate of interest on guaranteed loans and for other purposes

How each representative voted: Yes

John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
William Somers Mailliard R-CA
Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
Gordon Leo Mcdonough 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
William Cato Cramer R-FL
Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
Harold Royce Gross 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
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
William Henry Avery R-KS
Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
Wint Smith R-KS
Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
William Henry Bates R-MA
Hastings Keith R-MA
Laurence Curtis R-MA
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
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
William S. Broomfield R-MI
Albert Harold Quie R-MN
Ancher Nelsen R-MN
Walter Henry Judd R-MN
Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
Don Levingston Short R-ND
Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
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
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
Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
John Henry Ray R-NY
John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
James Ernest Wharton R-NY
Leo William O'Brien D-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
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
Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
Clarence J. Brown R-OH
Jackson Edward Betts R-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
Ivor David Fenton R-PA
John Armand Lafore Jr. R-PA
Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
Richard Harding Poff R-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
Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
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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