House roll call 61 · 86th Congress · Aug 14, 1959
HR 7040. Independent offices appropriations for fiscal 1960. Conference stage. Motion that house disagree to Senate amendment providing $25 million instead o
On Aug 14, 1959, the House voted 241–167 (HR 7040). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 138–124, Republicans 103–42, Others 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 166 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
- 241
- No
- 167
- Did not vote
- 8
- Date
- Aug 14, 1959
By party
- Democrats138 yes · 124 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no
- Republicans103 yes · 42 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted no
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ voted no
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-CA voted no
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted no
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted no
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted no
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA voted no
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted no
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted no
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA voted no
- James Roosevelt D-CA voted no
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO voted no
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT voted no
- Chester Bliss Bowles D-CT voted no
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted no
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL voted no
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted no
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL voted no
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL voted no
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL voted no
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL voted no
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted no
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
- William Lee Springer R-IL voted no
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL voted no
- John Brademas D-IN voted no
- John Edward Roush D-IN voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted no
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
- Laurence Curtis R-MA voted no
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA voted no
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted no
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD voted no
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD voted no
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD voted no
- John Robert Foley D-MD voted no
- James Churchill Oliver D-ME voted no
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME voted no
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME voted no
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI voted no
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI voted no
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted no
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted no
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted no
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted no
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted no
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO voted no
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO voted no
And 86 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-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
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Donald Jay Irwin D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Frank Kowalski D-CT
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Harlan Erwin Mitchell D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Leonard George Wolf D-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Steven V. Carter D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Edna Oakes Simpson R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Fred Wampler D-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Lee Hogan D-IN
- Randall S. Harmon D-IN
- Joseph Walker Barr D-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Newell Adolphus George D-KS
- Denver David Hargis D-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Welsh Burke D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- 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
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Ralph James Scott 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
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- John Taber 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
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Robert Woodrow Levering D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Armand Lafore Jr. R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-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
- 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
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-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
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- David Sjodahl King D-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing 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
- William Henry Meyer D-VT
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-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
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Thomas Dale Alford O-AR
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller 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
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Chester Bliss Bowles D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- John Robert Foley D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver D-ME
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- David McKee Hall D-NC
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Quentin Northrup Burdick D-ND
- Lawrence Brock D-NE
- Donald Francis Mcginley D-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- Ludwig Teller D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Jessica McCullough Weis R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Robert Eugene Cook D-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman 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
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Stanley A. Prokop D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Gerald Thomas Flynn D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Voted present
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- George Albert Kasem D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Byron Lindberg Johnson D-CO
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
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
- 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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