House roll call 101 · 87th Congress · Sep 15, 1961
H. RES. 464. Closed rule prohibiting amendments from being offered to a bill raising postal rates (H.R. 7927). Sisk motion to assure consideration of bill und
On Sep 15, 1961, the House voted 142–222 (HRE 464). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 146–99, Republicans 11–140. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 110 members voted against their own party.
During the 87th Congress (1961–1962), John F. Kennedy was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 142
- No
- 222
- Did not vote
- 13
- Date
- Sep 15, 1961
By party
- Democrats146 yes · 99 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Republicans11 yes · 140 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Thomas Dale Alford D-AR voted no
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-CA voted no
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted no
- John Francis Shelley D-CA voted no
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA voted no
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA voted no
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- James Charles Corman D-CA voted no
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA voted no
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO voted no
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- Frank Kowalski D-CT voted no
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- John William Davis D-GA voted no
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted yes
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA voted no
- Merwin Coad D-IA voted no
- Ralph R. Harding D-ID voted no
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
- John Edward Roush D-IN voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA voted no
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted no
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted yes
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI voted yes
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted no
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted no
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN voted no
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Arnold Olsen D-MT voted no
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC voted no
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC voted no
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ voted no
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ voted yes
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted no
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY voted no
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY voted no
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY voted no
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY voted yes
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY voted no
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH voted yes
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH voted no
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted no
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK voted no
- John Jarman D-OK voted no
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK voted no
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR voted no
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR voted no
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA voted no
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA voted no
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA voted yes
And 30 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains 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
- Catherine Dorris Norrell D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Daniel Ken Inouye D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- 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
- Edward Rowan Finnegan D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- 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
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. 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
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey 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
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Robert Eugene Cook D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- 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
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Thomas Dale Alford D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Peter Hoyt Dominick R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT
- Frank Kowalski D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- James Edward Bromwell R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Ralph R. Harding D-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Donald Cogley Bruce R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS
- Walter Lewis Mcvey Jr. R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
- Peter Adams Garland R-ME
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder 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
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Hjalmar Carl Nygaard R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Ralph Frederick Beermann R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Carleton James King 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
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Tom Van Horn Moorehead R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Edwin Russell Durno R-OR
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- William Warren Scranton R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- 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
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Morris Blaine Peterson D-UT
- David Sjodahl King D-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson 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
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Voted present
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Louise Goff Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Did not vote
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- George O. Chambers R-IN
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- Harold Martin Ryan D-MI
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Corinne Boyd Riley D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
Other votes
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