House roll call 62 · 88th Congress · Aug 23, 1963
H.R. 7885. Passage.
On Aug 23, 1963, the House voted 224–186 (HR 7885). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 176–70, Republicans 53–121. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 123 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
- 224
- No
- 186
- Did not vote
- 10
- Date
- Aug 23, 1963
By party
- Democrats176 yes · 70 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Republicans53 yes · 121 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted yes
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Craig Hosmer R-CA voted yes
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted no
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA voted no
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- John William Davis D-GA voted no
- James Russell Tuten D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted yes
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted yes
- William Lee Springer R-IL voted yes
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted yes
- John Edward Roush D-IN voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted no
- Gillis William Long D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA voted yes
- William Henry Bates R-MA voted yes
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted yes
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD voted yes
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD voted yes
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME voted yes
- George Meader R-MI voted yes
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted yes
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI voted yes
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted yes
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted yes
- Clark Macgregor R-MN voted yes
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones 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
- William Meyers Colmer 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
- Ralph James Scott 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
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted yes
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ voted yes
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted yes
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ voted yes
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ voted yes
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ voted yes
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM voted no
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted no
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY voted yes
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY voted yes
- Seymour Halpern R-NY voted yes
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY voted yes
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted yes
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY voted yes
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY voted yes
And 43 more.
The bill
H.R. 7885: To amend further the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended, and for other purposes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble 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
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-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
- 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
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard 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
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Bernard Francis Grabowski D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Charles Longstreet Weltner D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Thomas Ponce Gill D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-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
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Edward Rowan Finnegan D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison 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
- 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
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-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
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-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
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Neil Oliver Staebler D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Alec Gehard Olson 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
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- William Thomas Cahill 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
- 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
- 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
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-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
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett 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
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney 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
- 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
- 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
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Oren Harris 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
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell 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
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley 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
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- James Russell Tuten D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- 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
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Thaddeus Mcloskey R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- 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
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Ralph James Scott 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
- 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
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell 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
- 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
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Dorman Weaver 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
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- 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
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- K. William Stinson R-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Voted present
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
Did not vote
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Hjalmar Carl Nygaard R-ND
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter 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.