To agree to H. J. RES. 642, a resolution authorizing the construction of a third library of Congress building.

On Oct 1, 1965, the House voted 329–5 (HJR 642). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 232–1, Republicans 98–5. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 6 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: 329
No: 5
Did not vote: 106
Date: Oct 1, 1965

By party

Democrats232 yes · 1 no · 67 didn’t vote
Republicans98 yes · 5 no · 39 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted no
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted no
James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted no
Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY voted no
Henry P. Smith III R-NY voted no
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
George William Andrews D-AL
James Douglas Martin R-AL
John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
George Frederick Senner Jr. D-AZ
William Somers Mailliard R-CA
Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
H. Allen Smith R-CA
Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
James Roosevelt D-CA
Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
Craig Hosmer R-CA
Kenneth Warren Dyal D-CA
James Boyd Utt R-CA
Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
Bernard Francis Grabowski D-CT
Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
George Elliott Hagan D-GA
Howard Hollis (Bo) Callaway R-GA
John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
John Robert Hansen D-IA
William Levi Dawson D-IL
John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
John Bayard Anderson R-IL
Robert Henry Michel R-IL
George Edward Shipley D-IL
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
William Gilmer Bray R-IN
Chester Louis Mize R-KS
Tim Lee Carter R-KY
Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
John William Mccormack D-MA
Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
Paul Harold Todd Jr. D-MI
John C. Mackie D-MI
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
William Meyers Colmer D-MS
Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
David Newton Henderson D-NC
Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
Ralph James Scott D-NC
Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC
Rolland W. Redlin D-ND
William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
Emanuel Celler D-NY
Eugene James Keogh D-NY
Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
Theodore Roosevelt Kupferman R-NY
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
Paul Albert Fino R-NY
John Goodchild Dow D-NY
Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
James Michael Hanley D-NY
Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
John Joyce Gilligan D-OH
William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
William Howard Harsha R-OH
Clarence J. Brown R-OH
Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
Robert E. Sweeney D-OH
Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
Jed Joseph Johnson Jr. D-OK
Wendell Wyatt R-OR
Edith Starrett Green D-OR
Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
Herman Toll D-PA
Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
Albert Thomas D-TX
Lera Millard Thomas D-TX
Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
Catherine Dean May R-WA
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
James Kee D-WV
Teno Roncalio D-WY

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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