House roll call 45 · 88th Congress · Jul 17, 1963
H.R. 5279. Adoption of conference report.
On Jul 17, 1963, the House voted 333–50 (HR 5279). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 209–4, Republicans 125–47. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 51 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
- 333
- No
- 50
- Did not vote
- 10
- Date
- Jul 17, 1963
By party
- Democrats209 yes · 4 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans125 yes · 47 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Edward John Gurney R-FL voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted no
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL voted no
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL voted no
- Robert Thaddeus Mcloskey R-IL voted no
- Paul Findley R-IL voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- Ralph Harvey R-IN voted no
- Donald Cogley Bruce R-IN voted no
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS voted no
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI voted no
- Clark Macgregor R-MN voted no
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted no
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO voted no
- Ralph Frederick Beermann R-NE voted no
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY voted no
- Frank John Becker R-NY voted no
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY voted no
- Carleton James King R-NY voted no
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY voted no
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY voted no
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH voted no
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted no
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH voted no
- Homer E. Abele R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH voted no
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH voted no
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA voted no
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA voted no
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA voted no
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted no
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD voted no
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX voted no
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-TX voted no
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted no
- William Munford Tuck D-VA voted no
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA voted no
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted no
- K. William Stinson R-WA voted no
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI voted no
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI voted no
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI voted no
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no
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
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills 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
- 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
- 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
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen 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
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-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
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-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
- 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
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Charles Longstreet Weltner D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John William Davis 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
- 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
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Edward Rowan Finnegan D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-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
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland 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
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- George Meader 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
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Harold Martin Ryan D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Neil Oliver Staebler D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Alec Gehard Olson D-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson 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
- 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
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-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
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- 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
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George 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
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Carl West Rich R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-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
- 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
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan 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
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead 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
- Leon Harry Gavin R-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
- 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
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray 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
- 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
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson 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
- 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
- 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
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt 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
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Edward John Gurney R-FL
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Robert Thaddeus Mcloskey R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Donald Cogley Bruce R-IN
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Ralph Frederick Beermann R-NE
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Homer E. Abele R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-TX
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- K. William Stinson R-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Voted present
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Bernard Francis Grabowski D-CT
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- John Brademas D-IN
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Carlton Ralph Sickles D-MD
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
Did not vote
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-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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