Roosevelt/williams (d-mass) motion to adjourn. (purpose was to stop republicans from discussing civil rights legislation under previously approved special orde

On Jun 4, 1963, the House voted 53–276. Result: failed. By party: Democrats 47–133, Republicans 6–143. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 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: 53
No: 276
Did not vote: 11
Date: Jun 4, 1963

By party

Democrats47 yes · 133 no · 7 didn’t vote
Republicans6 yes · 143 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 Jr. Huddleston D-AL voted yes
George McInvale Grant D-AL voted yes
George William Andrews D-AL voted yes
Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
Oren Harris D-AR voted yes
Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted yes
James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
Don Fuqua D-FL voted yes
George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted yes
John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted yes
John William Davis D-GA voted yes
James Russell Tuten D-GA voted yes
Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted yes
Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted yes
Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted yes
Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL voted yes
Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted yes
Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted yes
John Clarence Watts D-KY voted yes
Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
Gillis William Long D-LA voted yes
John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
John Bell Williams D-MS voted yes
William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted yes
William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted yes
David Newton Henderson D-NC voted yes
Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted yes
Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted yes
Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted yes
Albert William Watson D-SC voted yes
William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted yes
Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC voted yes
Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC voted yes
Robert Ashton Everett D-TN voted yes
Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX voted yes
Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted yes
John Vernard Dowdy D-TX voted yes
William Robert Poage D-TX voted yes
Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted yes
Joe Richard Pool D-TX voted yes
Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA voted yes
Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA voted yes
Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted yes
Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted yes
William Munford Tuck D-VA voted yes
Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
Morris King Udall D-AZ
Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
John Emerson Moss 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
Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
H. Allen Smith R-CA
Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
James Charles Corman D-CA
Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
Ronald Brooks Cameron D-CA
Everett Glen Burkhalter D-CA
Alphonzo Bell R-CA
Edward R. Roybal D-CA
Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
Craig Hosmer R-CA
Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
Patrick Minor Martin R-CA
Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
John Edgar Chenoweth R-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
Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
Edward John Gurney R-FL
William Cato Cramer R-FL
Charles Longstreet Weltner D-GA
Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
Thomas Ponce Gill D-HI
Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
James Edward Bromwell R-IA
Neal Edward Smith D-IA
Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
Compton Ignatius White Jr. D-ID
Ralph R. Harding D-ID
Barratt O'Hara D-IL
William Thomas Murphy D-IL
Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
Edward Rowan Finnegan D-IL
Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
Roman Conrad Pucinski D-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
Paul Findley R-IL
Kenneth James Gray D-IL
William Lee Springer R-IL
Charles Melvin Price D-IL
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
Garner E. Shriver R-KS
Joe Skubitz R-KS
Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
William Huston Natcher D-KY
Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
Eugene Siler R-KY
Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
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
Hastings Keith R-MA
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
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
Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
Harold Martin Ryan D-MI
John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
William S. Broomfield R-MI
Albert Harold Quie R-MN
Ancher Nelsen R-MN
Clark Macgregor R-MN
Joseph Edward Karth D-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
Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
Arnold Olsen D-MT
Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
Hjalmar Carl Nygaard R-ND
Don Levingston Short R-ND
Ralph Frederick Beermann R-NE
Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
William Thomas Cahill 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
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
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
Eugene James Keogh D-NY
Edna Flannery Kelly 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
Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
James Ernest Wharton R-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
Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
John Raymond Pillion 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
Clarence J. Brown R-OH
Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-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
Frank Townsend Bow 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
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
Edith Starrett Green D-OR
Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
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
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
Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
Robert James Corbett R-PA
George Atlee Goodling R-PA
John Phillips Saylor R-PA
James Dorman Weaver R-PA
Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
James Grove Fulton R-PA
John Edward Fogarty D-RI
Benjamin Reifel R-SD
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
James Henry Quillen R-TN
William Emerson Brock III R-TN
Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
Ross Bass D-TN
Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
John William Wright Patman D-TX
Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
William Homer Thornberry 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
George Herman Mahon D-TX
Henry B. González D-TX
Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
Richard Harding Poff R-VA
John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
William Pat Jennings D-VA
Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
Catherine Dean May R-WA
K. William Stinson R-WA
Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
Clement John Zablocki D-WI
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-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
Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
William Henry Harrison R-WY

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

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