To reconsider the vote adopting a resolution providing that all debate in committee of the whole on H.R. 7 shall terminate on thursday next at 2 o'clock.

On Apr 15, 1846, the House voted 72–67. Result: passed. By party: Democrats 19–67, Others 53–0. 19 members voted against their own party.

During the 29th Congress (1845–1846), James K. Polk was president.

Yes: 72
No: 67
Did not vote: 98
Date: Apr 15, 1846

By party

Democrats19 yes · 67 no · 63 didn’t vote
Others53 yes · 0 no · 35 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

William Lowndes Yancey D-AL voted yes
William Winter Payne D-AL voted yes
Isaac Edward Morse D-LA voted yes
Robert Mcclelland D-MI voted yes
James Bennett Hunt D-MI voted yes
Jacob Thompson D-MS voted yes
Bradford Ripley Wood D-NY voted yes
Henry Donnel Foster D-PA voted yes
James Augustus Black D-SC voted yes
Richard Franklin Simpson D-SC voted yes
Joseph Addison Woodward D-SC voted yes
Armistead Burt D-SC voted yes
Isaac Edward Holmes D-SC voted yes
Barclay Martin D-TN voted yes
Thomas Henry Bayly D-VA voted yes
Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter D-VA voted yes
Henry Bedinger D-VA voted yes
James Mcdowell D-VA voted yes
Augustus Alexandria Chapman D-VA voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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