House roll call 64 · 88th Congress · Aug 28, 1963
H.R. 7500. Adoption of conference report.
On Aug 28, 1963, the House voted 248–125 (HR 7500). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 209–14, Republicans 50–122. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 64 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
- 248
- No
- 125
- Did not vote
- 10
- Date
- Aug 28, 1963
By party
- Democrats209 yes · 14 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Republicans50 yes · 122 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted yes
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA voted yes
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted yes
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA voted yes
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO voted yes
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted yes
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted yes
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS voted yes
- 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
- Hastings Keith R-MA voted yes
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD voted yes
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME voted yes
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME voted yes
- George Meader R-MI voted yes
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted yes
- James Harvey R-MI voted yes
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI voted yes
- 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
- James Franklin Battin R-MT voted yes
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- Alton Asa Lennon 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
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ voted yes
- 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
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY voted yes
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY voted yes
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted yes
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY voted yes
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH voted yes
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH voted yes
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA voted yes
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA voted yes
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA voted yes
- James Grove Fulton R-PA voted yes
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC voted no
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted no
- William Munford Tuck D-VA voted no
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT voted yes
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA voted yes
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Oren Harris 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
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser 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
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Ronald Brooks Cameron D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Everett Glen Burkhalter D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-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
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes 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
- George Elliott Hagan 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
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. 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
- 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
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Robert Fred Ellsworth 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
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- 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
- 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
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- 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
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Harold Martin Ryan D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. 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
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener 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
- 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
- Thomas Gayle Morris 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
- 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
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- 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 Blackford Duncan 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
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel 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
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson 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
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-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
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Patrick Minor Martin R-CA
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Edward John Gurney R-FL
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- 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
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Thaddeus Mcloskey R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-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
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- 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 Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-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
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- William Edward Miller 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
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Dorman Weaver R-PA
- Robert Thomas Ashmore 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
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- K. William Stinson R-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Voted present
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Bernard Francis Grabowski D-CT
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Neil Oliver Staebler D-MI
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Alec Gehard Olson D-MN
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Albert William Watson D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
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.
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