To strike title IX - (H.R. 5150. For the relief of alixander e. Kovner) from H.R. 11214.

On May 19, 1936, the House voted 68–198 (HR 11214). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 38–160, Republicans 30–31, Others 0–7. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted no. 68 members voted against their own party.

During the 74th Congress (1935–1936), Franklin D. Roosevelt was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 68
No: 198
Did not vote: 175
Date: May 19, 1936

By party

Democrats38 yes · 160 no · 128 didn’t vote
Republicans30 yes · 31 no · 44 didn’t vote
Others0 yes · 7 no · 3 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
Albert Edward Carter R-CA voted yes
John Martin Costello D-CA voted yes
Schuyler Merritt R-CT voted yes
Bryant Thomas Castellow D-GA voted yes
Malcolm Connor Tarver D-GA voted yes
Lloyd Thurston R-IA voted yes
Guy Mark Gillette D-IA voted yes
Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted yes
Chauncey William Reed R-IL voted yes
Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted yes
Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted yes
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted yes
Samuel Barrett Pettengill D-IN voted yes
James Indus Farley D-IN voted yes
Virginia Ellis Jenckes D-IN voted yes
Finly Hutchinson Gray D-IN voted yes
William Henry Larrabee D-IN voted yes
Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN voted yes
Edward White Patterson D-KS voted yes
George Holden Tinkham R-MA voted yes
Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted yes
Verner Wright Main R-MI voted yes
Carl Edgar Mapes R-MI voted yes
William Wallace Blackney R-MI voted yes
Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI voted yes
Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted yes
Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted yes
Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI voted yes
Harold Knutson R-MN voted yes
Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted yes
John Joseph Cochran D-MO voted yes
John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted yes
Wall Doxey D-MS voted yes
William Madison Whittington D-MS voted yes
Aaron Lane Ford D-MS voted yes
Robert Low Bacon R-NY voted yes
Charles Dunsmore Millard R-NY voted yes
Bertrand Hollis Snell R-NY voted yes
Clarence Eugene Hancock R-NY voted yes
Byron Berry Harlan D-OH voted yes
Frank Le Blond Kloeb D-OH voted yes
Frank Charles Kniffin D-OH voted yes
James Gould Polk D-OH voted yes
Leroy Tate Marshall R-OH voted yes
Thomas Brooks Fletcher D-OH voted yes
Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted yes
William Albert Ashbrook D-OH voted yes
Lawrence E. Imhoff D-OH voted yes
Stephen Marvin Young D-OH voted yes
Jed Joseph Johnson D-OK voted yes
Walter Marcus Pierce D-OR voted yes
William Henry Wilson R-PA voted yes
George Potter Darrow R-PA voted yes
James Wolfenden R-PA voted yes
John Roland Kinzer R-PA voted yes
Robert Fleming Rich R-PA voted yes
Charles Isiah Faddis D-PA voted yes
Joseph Anthony Gray D-PA voted yes
John Matthew O'Connell D-RI voted yes
John Clarence Taylor D-SC voted yes
Luther Alexander Johnson D-TX voted yes
Oliver Harlan Cross D-TX voted yes
William Doddridge Mcfarlane D-TX voted yes
Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX voted yes
Thomas Lindsay Blanton D-TX voted yes
George Herman Mahon D-TX voted yes
Absalom Willis Robertson 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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