House roll call 39 · 88th Congress · Jun 19, 1963
H.J. RES. 247. Suspend for the 1964 pres. Campaign section 315(a) of the communications act, requiring broadcasters to provide equal time for all political can
On Jun 19, 1963, the House voted 263–126 (HJRE 247). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 179–48, Republicans 84–78. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 126 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
- 263
- No
- 126
- Did not vote
- 11
- Date
- Jun 19, 1963
By party
- Democrats179 yes · 48 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans84 yes · 78 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
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- George Frederick Senner Jr. D-AZ voted no
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted no
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA voted no
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA voted no
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA voted no
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA voted no
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted no
- H. Allen Smith R-CA voted no
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA voted no
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA voted no
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA voted no
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA voted no
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- Patrick Minor Martin R-CA voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Edward John Gurney R-FL voted no
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- James Russell Tuten D-GA voted no
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI voted no
- Thomas Ponce Gill D-HI voted no
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted no
- James Edward Bromwell R-IA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- John Henry Kyl R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted no
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL voted no
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL voted no
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL voted no
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL voted no
- Paul Findley R-IL voted no
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- Donald Cogley Bruce R-IN voted no
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted no
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN voted no
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN voted no
- Alec Gehard Olson D-MN voted no
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN 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
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted no
- Hjalmar Carl Nygaard R-ND voted no
- Don Levingston Short R-ND voted no
- Ralph Frederick Beermann R-NE voted no
- David Thomas Martin R-NE voted no
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH voted no
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted no
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ voted no
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ voted no
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY voted no
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY voted no
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY voted no
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY voted no
- Seymour Halpern R-NY voted no
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY voted no
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted no
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY voted no
And 46 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Ronald Brooks Cameron D-CA
- Everett Glen Burkhalter D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario 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
- 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
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Charles Longstreet Weltner D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White Jr. D-ID
- Ralph R. Harding D-ID
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Thaddeus Mcloskey R-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
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver 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
- 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
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-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
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-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
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-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
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Neil Oliver Staebler D-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth 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
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- 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
- 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
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid 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
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- 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
- 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
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin 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
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague 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
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary 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
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- K. William Stinson R-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-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
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
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
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- George Frederick Senner Jr. D-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Patrick Minor Martin R-CA
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Edward John Gurney R-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. 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
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Donald Cogley Bruce R-IN
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Alec Gehard Olson D-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Hjalmar Carl Nygaard R-ND
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Ralph Frederick Beermann R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Emanuel Celler 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
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion 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
- 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
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Albert William Watson D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Voted present
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Edward Rowan Finnegan D-IL
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- James Dorman Weaver R-PA
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- 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
- Francis Eugene Walter 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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