House roll call 138 · 88th Congress · Mar 12, 1964
H.R. 8986. On passage. Failed.
On Mar 12, 1964, the House voted 184–222 (HR 8986). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 156–89, Republicans 35–140. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 124 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
- 184
- No
- 222
- Did not vote
- 11
- Date
- Mar 12, 1964
By party
- Democrats156 yes · 89 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans35 yes · 140 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews 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
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- George Frederick Senner Jr. D-AZ voted no
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted yes
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA voted yes
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA voted yes
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA voted yes
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA voted no
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett 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
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- Sam Melville Gibbons 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
- Charles Longstreet Weltner D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL voted yes
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted yes
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- John Edward Roush D-IN voted no
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS voted yes
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted no
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Gillis William Long D-LA voted no
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA voted no
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA voted yes
- William Henry Bates R-MA voted yes
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted yes
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME voted yes
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted no
- Alec Gehard Olson D-MN voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted no
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones 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
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC voted no
- Alton Asa Lennon 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
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ voted yes
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted yes
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ voted yes
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ voted yes
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM voted no
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM voted no
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted no
- Frank John Becker R-NY voted yes
- Seymour Halpern R-NY voted yes
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted yes
- Carleton James King R-NY voted yes
And 44 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott 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
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Ronald Brooks Cameron D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Everett Glen Burkhalter D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-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
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- James Russell Tuten D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Thomas Ponce Gill D-HI
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White Jr. 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
- Edward Rowan Finnegan D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Carlton Ralph Sickles D-MD
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Harold Martin Ryan D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Neil Oliver Staebler D-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. 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
- Otis Grey Pike D-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
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan 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
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Herman Toll D-PA
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- George McInvale Grant 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
- George Frederick Senner Jr. D-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patrick Minor Martin R-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett 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
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- James Edward Bromwell R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld 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
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-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
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Donald Cogley Bruce R-IN
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson 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
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Alec Gehard Olson D-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II 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
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson 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
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Carl West Rich R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy 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
- Homer E. Abele R-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-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
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- James Dorman Weaver R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Albert William Watson D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn 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
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- K. William Stinson R-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-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
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Ross Bass D-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
Did not vote
Other votes
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