House roll call 25 · 88th Congress · May 14, 1963
H.R. 5517. Thomas (d-texas) motion ordering the previous question (ending debate) on his amendment to the Senate's philippine war claims rider.
On May 14, 1963, the House voted 168–207 (HR 5517). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 183–51, Republicans 2–174. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 53 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
- 168
- No
- 207
- Did not vote
- 10
- Date
- May 14, 1963
By party
- Democrats183 yes · 51 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 174 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 William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted yes
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted no
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL voted no
- John Edward Roush D-IN voted no
- Carlton Ralph Sickles D-MD voted no
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon 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
- 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
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ voted no
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted no
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY voted no
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted yes
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH voted no
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted no
- John Jarman D-OK voted no
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR voted no
- Albert William Watson D-SC voted no
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC voted no
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC voted no
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX voted no
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted no
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX voted no
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX voted no
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX voted no
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA voted no
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted no
- William Munford Tuck D-VA voted no
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA voted no
- William Pat Jennings D-VA voted no
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI voted no
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- 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
- John Joseph Mcfall 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
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin 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
- 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
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Charles Longstreet Weltner D-GA
- Carl Vinson 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
- 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
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- 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
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-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
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Alec Gehard Olson D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-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
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman 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
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Patrick Minor Martin R-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons 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
- 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 Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Thaddeus Mcloskey R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-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
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
- Carlton Ralph Sickles D-MD
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
- 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
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead 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
- Hjalmar Carl Nygaard 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
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- 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
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- 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
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid 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
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag 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
- 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
- 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
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Dorman Weaver R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- 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
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt 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
- K. William Stinson R-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-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
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Voted present
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Ralph R. Harding D-ID
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- Neil Oliver Staebler D-MI
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
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.
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