To amend H.R. 2667, by reducing the various rates of duty on leather shoes, proposed by the committee on finance. (p. 5386-2)

On Mar 17, 1930, the Senate voted 20–48 (HR 2667). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 18–25, Democrats 3–23. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 21 members voted against their own party.

During the 71st Congress (1929–1930), Herbert Hoover was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 20
No: 48
Did not vote: 40
Date: Mar 17, 1930

By party

Democrats3 yes · 23 no · 18 didn’t vote
Republicans18 yes · 25 no · 21 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Hiram Bingham R-CT voted yes
Daniel Oren Hastings R-DE voted yes
John Gillis Townsend Jr. R-DE voted yes
David Ignatius Walsh D-MA voted yes
Phillips Lee Goldsborough R-MD voted yes
Frederick Hale R-ME voted yes
Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg R-MI voted yes
James Couzens R-MI voted yes
Roscoe Conkling Patterson R-MO voted yes
George Higgins Moses R-NH voted yes
Henry Wilder Keyes R-NH voted yes
David Baird Jr. R-NJ voted yes
Robert Ferdinand Wagner D-NY voted yes
Royal Samuel Copeland D-NY voted yes
Joseph Ridgway Grundy R-PA voted yes
Jesse Houghton Metcalf R-RI voted yes
Frank Lester Greene R-VT voted yes
Porter Hinman Dale R-VT voted yes
Wesley Livsey Jones R-WA voted yes
Guy Despard Goff R-WV voted yes
Henry Drury Hatfield R-WV voted yes

How each senator voted: Yes

How each senator voted: No

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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