House roll call 31 · 88th Congress · May 29, 1963
H.R. 5497. Extending the existing program for recruitment of mexican farm laborers through dec. 1965.
On May 29, 1963, the House voted 158–174 (HR 5497). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 88–130, Republicans 95–69. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 157 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
- 158
- No
- 174
- Did not vote
- 10
- Date
- May 29, 1963
By party
- Democrats88 yes · 130 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Republicans95 yes · 69 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted yes
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL voted yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted yes
- George William Andrews D-AL voted yes
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- James William Trimble D-AR voted yes
- Oren Harris D-AR voted yes
- Morris King Udall D-AZ voted yes
- George Frederick Senner Jr. D-AZ voted yes
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted yes
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted yes
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted yes
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA voted yes
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted yes
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA voted yes
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA voted yes
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted yes
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL voted yes
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted yes
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted yes
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted yes
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted yes
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA voted yes
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted yes
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted yes
- John William Davis D-GA voted yes
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted no
- James Edward Bromwell R-IA voted no
- John Henry Kyl R-IA voted no
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
- Ralph R. Harding D-ID voted yes
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL voted no
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL voted no
- Robert Thaddeus Mcloskey R-IL voted no
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted yes
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted yes
- Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted yes
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
- Gillis William Long D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted yes
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD voted no
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD voted yes
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME voted no
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI voted yes
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted no
- Neil Oliver Staebler D-MI voted yes
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted yes
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC voted yes
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted yes
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC voted yes
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted yes
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE voted no
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH voted no
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted no
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ voted no
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ voted no
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted no
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ voted no
And 77 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott 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
- James William Trimble 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
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard 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
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-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
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes 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
- 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
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Ralph R. Harding D-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck 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
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-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 Grant O'Hara D-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Neil Oliver Staebler D-MI
- Ancher Nelsen 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 Meyers Colmer D-MS
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley 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
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Albert William Watson 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
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. 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
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- 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
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King 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
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers 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
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Charles Longstreet Weltner D-GA
- James Russell Tuten D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Thomas Ponce Gill D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- James Edward Bromwell R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White Jr. D-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- Robert Thaddeus Mcloskey R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- John Brademas D-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. 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
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
- Carlton Ralph Sickles D-MD
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Alec Gehard Olson D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham 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
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- 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
- 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
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-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
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Carl West Rich R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Homer E. Abele R-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton 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
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Edith Starrett Green 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
- 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
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor 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
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- K. William Stinson R-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-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
Voted present
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Edward Rowan Finnegan D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Harold Martin Ryan D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- James Dorman Weaver R-PA
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
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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Capitol Receipts, “H.R. 5497. Extending the existing program…: House Vote, May 29, 1963,” https://www.capitolreceipts.com/vote/88-H-31/h-r-5497-extending-the-existing-program-for-recruitment (accessed 2026-10-16).