House roll call 105 · 88th Congress · Dec 10, 1963
H. RES. 579. Rule for floor consideration, with two hours general debate of H.R. 7457 providing indigent defendents accused of federal crimes with paid legal
On Dec 10, 1963, the House voted 345–12 (HRE 6579). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 196–7, Republicans 150–5. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 12 members voted against their own party.
During the 88th Congress (1963–1964), Lyndon B. Johnson was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 345
- No
- 12
- Did not vote
- 9
- Date
- Dec 10, 1963
By party
- Democrats196 yes · 7 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Republicans150 yes · 5 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY voted no
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY voted no
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX voted no
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- George Frederick Senner Jr. D-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Ronald Brooks Cameron D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Everett Glen Burkhalter D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Bernard Francis Grabowski D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Edward John Gurney R-FL
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Charles Longstreet Weltner D-GA
- James Russell Tuten D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- James Edward Bromwell R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Ralph R. Harding D-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Thaddeus Mcloskey R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Donald Cogley Bruce R-IN
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
- Carlton Ralph Sickles D-MD
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Harold Martin Ryan D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Neil Oliver Staebler D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Alec Gehard Olson D-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-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
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Ralph Frederick Beermann R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Carl West Rich 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
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Homer E. Abele R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow 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
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert 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
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Herman Toll D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- James Dorman Weaver R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Albert William Watson D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- William Pat Jennings 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
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Voted present
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Patrick Minor Martin R-CA
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Thomas Ponce Gill D-HI
- Compton Ignatius White Jr. D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Edward Rowan Finnegan D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- K. William Stinson R-WA
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
Did not vote
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Hjalmar Carl Nygaard R-ND
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Irene Bailey Baker R-TN
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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