House roll call 173 · 89th Congress · Sep 29, 1965
To agree to strike the enacting clause and thus kill H.R. 4644, the d.c. Home rule bill.
On Sep 29, 1965, the House voted 179–219 (HR 4644). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 94–193, Republicans 94–35. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 129 members voted against their own party.
During the 89th Congress (1965–1966), Lyndon B. Johnson was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 179
- No
- 219
- Did not vote
- 26
- Date
- Sep 29, 1965
By party
- Democrats94 yes · 193 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Republicans94 yes · 35 no · 13 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-AL voted yes
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted yes
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- Oren Harris D-AR voted yes
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted no
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted no
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted yes
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted yes
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted yes
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted yes
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. 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
- Compton Ignatius White Jr. D-ID voted yes
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS voted no
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS voted no
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted yes
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted yes
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted yes
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted yes
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA voted no
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted yes
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD voted no
- Hervey Gilbert Machen D-MD voted yes
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD voted no
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted no
- James Harvey R-MI voted no
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI voted no
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted no
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted yes
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted yes
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted yes
- Ralph James Scott D-NC voted yes
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC voted yes
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted yes
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC voted yes
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted yes
- Mark Andrews R-ND voted no
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted no
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ voted no
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ voted no
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ voted no
- E. S. Johnny Walker D-NM voted yes
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM voted yes
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted yes
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY voted yes
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY voted no
- Seymour Halpern R-NY voted no
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY voted yes
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY voted no
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY voted no
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted no
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY voted no
And 49 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Arthur Glenn Andrews R-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- James Douglas Martin R-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills 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
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- 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
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Edward John Gurney R-FL
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA
- Howard Hollis (Bo) Callaway R-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
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Compton Ignatius White Jr. D-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends 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
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Hervey Gilbert Machen D-MD
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-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
- Prentiss Lafayette Walker R-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
- Harold Dunbar Cooley 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
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- E. S. Johnny Walker D-NM
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- 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
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-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
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- 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
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- 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
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-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
- 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
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Kenneth Warren Dyal D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Roy Harrison Mcvicker D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Donald Jay Irwin D-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
- James Armstrong Mackay D-GA
- Charles Longstreet Weltner D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- John Richard Schmidhauser D-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Bert Andrew Bandstra D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Stanley Lloyd Greigg D-IA
- John Robert Hansen D-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Darwin Gale Schisler 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
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Charles Rowland Peaslee Farnsley D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- 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
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-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
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Carlton Ralph Sickles D-MD
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Weston Edward Vivian D-MI
- Paul Harold Todd Jr. D-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- John C. Mackie D-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Raymond Francis Clevenger D-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Billie Sunday Farnum D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie 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
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Rolland W. Redlin D-ND
- Clair Armstrong Callan D-NE
- Joseph Oliva Huot D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Thomas Charles Mcgrath Jr. D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Paul Joseph Krebs D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Herbert Tenzer D-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
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- John Goodchild Dow D-NY
- Joseph Yale Resnick D-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- John Joyce Gilligan D-OH
- Rodney Marvin Love D-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Robert E. Sweeney D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- 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 D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Nathaniel Neiman Craley Jr. D-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- George William Grider D-TN
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- David Sjodahl King D-UT
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Lynn Ellsworth Stalbaum D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- John Abner Race D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Chester Louis Mize R-KS
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
- Theodore Roosevelt Kupferman R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Jed Joseph Johnson Jr. D-OK
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Lera Millard Thomas D-TX
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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