House roll call 15 · 88th Congress · Apr 24, 1963
H.R. 12. Passage.
On Apr 24, 1963, the House voted 288–122 (HR 12). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 220–26, Republicans 72–100. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 98 members voted against their own party.
During the 88th Congress (1963–1964), John F. Kennedy was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 288
- No
- 122
- Did not vote
- 10
- Date
- Apr 24, 1963
By party
- Democrats220 yes · 26 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Republicans72 yes · 100 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted yes
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA voted yes
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA voted yes
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA voted yes
- Craig Hosmer R-CA voted yes
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO voted yes
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT voted yes
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- William Lee Springer R-IL voted yes
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted yes
- William Henry Avery R-KS voted yes
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS voted yes
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS voted yes
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman 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
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted yes
- Hastings Keith R-MA voted yes
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD voted yes
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME voted yes
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME voted yes
- George Meader R-MI voted yes
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI voted yes
- James Harvey R-MI voted yes
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI voted yes
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted yes
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN voted yes
- 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
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC voted no
- Hjalmar Carl Nygaard R-ND voted yes
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted yes
- 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
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ voted yes
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ voted yes
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted no
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY voted yes
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY voted yes
- Seymour Halpern R-NY voted yes
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY voted yes
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted yes
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY voted yes
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY voted yes
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY voted yes
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY voted yes
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY voted yes
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted yes
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY voted yes
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted yes
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted yes
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH voted yes
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted no
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA voted yes
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted yes
- John Irving Whalley R-PA voted yes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA voted yes
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA voted yes
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA voted yes
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
- James Dorman Weaver R-PA voted yes
- James Grove Fulton R-PA voted yes
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
And 18 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts 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
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- George Frederick Senner Jr. D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett 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
- Jesse Arthur Younger 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
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Ronald Brooks Cameron D-CA
- Everett Glen Burkhalter D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman 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
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Charles Longstreet Weltner D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- James Russell Tuten D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum 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
- 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
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf 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
- Gillis William Long 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
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-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
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-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
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Neil Oliver Staebler D-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Alec Gehard Olson 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
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Hjalmar Carl Nygaard R-ND
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- 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
- Florence Price Dwyer 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
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler 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
- 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
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Herman Toll D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin 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
- Francis Eugene Walter 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
- 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
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Albert William Watson D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Henry B. González 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
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- George William Andrews D-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Patrick Minor Martin R-CA
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Edward John Gurney R-FL
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- 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
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Thaddeus Mcloskey R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Donald Cogley Bruce R-IN
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-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
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Ralph Frederick Beermann R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch 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
- 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
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy 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
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- K. William Stinson 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
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Voted present
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Carl West Rich R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
Did not vote
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Irene Bailey Baker R-TN
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.