House roll call 15 · 87th Congress · Mar 24, 1961
H.R. 3935. Fair labor standards amendments of 1961. Hiestand motion to recommit. Rejected.
On Mar 24, 1961, the House voted 196–224 (HR 3935). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 175–81, Republicans 24–146. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 105 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
- 196
- No
- 224
- Did not vote
- 18
- Date
- Mar 24, 1961
By party
- Democrats175 yes · 81 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Republicans24 yes · 146 no · 5 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted no
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- Thomas Dale Alford D-AR voted no
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA voted yes
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. 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
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted no
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA voted no
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- John William Davis D-GA voted no
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted yes
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted no
- Frank Welsh Burke D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted no
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA voted yes
- William Henry Bates R-MA voted yes
- Hastings Keith R-MA voted yes
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD voted no
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted yes
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO voted no
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy 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
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- Ralph James Scott D-NC voted no
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted no
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC voted no
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC voted no
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE voted yes
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted yes
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ voted yes
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ voted yes
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ voted yes
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ voted yes
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM voted no
- Seymour Halpern R-NY voted yes
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY voted yes
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted yes
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted no
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA voted yes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA voted yes
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted yes
- James Grove Fulton R-PA voted yes
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- John Jacob Riley D-SC voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN voted no
And 25 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- 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
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Frank Kowalski D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Daniel Ken Inouye D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Ralph R. Harding 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
- Edward Rowan Finnegan D-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. 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
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-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
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson 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
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- 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
- Edna Flannery Kelly 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
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
- Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
- Robert Eugene Cook 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
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green 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
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-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
- Ross Bass D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Morris Blaine Peterson D-UT
- David Sjodahl King D-UT
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- 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
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- 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
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Thomas Dale Alford D-AR
- 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
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Peter Hoyt Dominick R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- James Edward Bromwell R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- 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
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson 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
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- Frank Welsh Burke D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA
- 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
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- James Harvey 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
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- 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
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Hjalmar Carl Nygaard R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Ralph Frederick Beermann R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton 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
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- 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
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Tom Van Horn Moorehead R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Edwin Russell Durno R-OR
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- William Warren Scranton R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns 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
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- 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
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-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
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Voted present
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
Did not vote
- Catherine Dorris Norrell D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- George O. Chambers R-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- Harold Martin Ryan D-MI
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Corinne Boyd Riley D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Louise Goff Reece R-TN
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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