House roll call 83 · 87th Congress · Aug 29, 1961
H.R. 6242. Authorize attorney general to fix salaries of justice department attorneys without regard to wage ceiling in 1949 classification act. Rejected.
On Aug 29, 1961, the House voted 172–223 (HR 6242). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 166–81, Republicans 17–153. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 98 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
- 172
- No
- 223
- Did not vote
- 13
- Date
- Aug 29, 1961
By party
- Democrats166 yes · 81 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Republicans17 yes · 153 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted no
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- George Jr. Huddleston 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
- Catherine Dorris Norrell D-AR voted no
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted yes
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-CA voted no
- Peter Hoyt Dominick R-CO voted yes
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted yes
- Frank Kowalski D-CT voted no
- William Cato Cramer R-FL voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. 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
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson 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
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID voted no
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL voted no
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted yes
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD voted no
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD voted no
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted no
- Clark Macgregor R-MN voted yes
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones 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
- James Franklin Battin R-MT voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- Ralph James Scott D-NC voted no
- Horace Robinson Kornegay 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
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC voted no
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ voted yes
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY voted no
- Seymour Halpern R-NY voted yes
- John James Rooney D-NY voted no
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY voted yes
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY voted no
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH voted yes
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted yes
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH voted no
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH voted yes
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH voted yes
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH voted yes
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR voted no
- Carroll Dudley Kearns 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
And 18 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- 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
- 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
- Peter Hoyt Dominick R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Daniel Ken Inouye D-HI
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Ralph R. Harding D-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien 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
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- Frank Welsh Burke D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane 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
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- 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
- 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
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-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
- 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
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson 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
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Morris Blaine Peterson D-UT
- David Sjodahl King D-UT
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-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
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston 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
- Catherine Dorris Norrell D-AR
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-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
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT
- Frank Kowalski D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. 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
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- 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
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Roland Victor Libonati D-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
- 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
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford 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
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones 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
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Horace Robinson Kornegay 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
- 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
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- 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
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Henry Ray 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
- Carleton James King 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
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck 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
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Tom Van Horn Moorehead R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edwin Russell Durno R-OR
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- William Warren Scranton R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Louise Goff Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher 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
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson 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
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Voted present
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Robert Eugene Cook D-OH
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
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
From Voteview roll call records.
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