HR 7086. Amend and extend renegotiation act of 1951, enabling government to recapture excessive profits on defense contracts. Motion to recommit. Rejected.

On May 27, 1959, the House voted 153–246 (HR 7086). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 18–252, Republicans 146–4, Others 0–1. It was a party-line vote: most Democrats and most Republicans voted on opposite sides. 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: 153
No: 246
Did not vote: 9
Date: May 27, 1959

By party

Democrats18 yes · 252 no · 4 didn’t vote
Others0 yes · 1 no
Republicans146 yes · 4 no · 5 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

John Emerson Moss D-CA voted yes
Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted yes
George Albert Kasem D-CA voted yes
James Roosevelt D-CA voted yes
Leonard George Wolf D-IA voted yes
Merwin Coad D-IA voted yes
Harold Reginald Collier R-IL voted no
William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
James Floyd Breeding D-KS voted yes
Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted yes
Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted yes
James Anthony Burke D-MA voted yes
Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted yes
Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted yes
Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted yes
Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE voted no
Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY voted no
Leo William O'Brien D-NY voted yes
Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC voted yes
William Robert Poage D-TX voted yes
Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI voted yes

The bill

H.R. 7086: To extend .the Renegotiation Act of 1951, and for other purposes

How each representative voted: Yes

John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
John Emerson Moss D-CA
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
Cecil Rhodes King D-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
George Albert Kasem D-CA
James Roosevelt D-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
Leonard George Wolf D-IA
Harold Royce Gross R-IA
Merwin Coad D-IA
Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
Edward Joseph Derwinski 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
James Floyd Breeding D-KS
Wint Smith R-KS
Eugene Siler R-KY
Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
William Henry Bates R-MA
Hastings Keith R-MA
Laurence Curtis R-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
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
Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
William Arthur Winstead D-MS
Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
Don Levingston Short R-ND
Phillip Hart Weaver 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
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
Leo William O'Brien D-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
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
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
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
John Phillips Saylor R-PA
Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
James Grove Fulton R-PA
Robert James Corbett R-PA
Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
William Robert Poage D-TX
Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
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
Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-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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