House roll call 5 · 80th Congress · Feb 18, 1947
HR 1968. Appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending june 30, 1947. Passage.
On Feb 18, 1947, the House voted 319–26 (HR 1968). Result: passed. By party: Republicans 198–0, Democrats 121–25, Others 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 25 members voted against their own party.
During the 80th Congress (1947–1948), Harry S. Truman was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 319
- No
- 26
- Did not vote
- 17
- Date
- Feb 18, 1947
By party
- Democrats121 yes · 25 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans198 yes · 0 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted no
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA voted no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL voted no
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI voted no
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted no
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ voted no
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ voted no
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY voted no
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY voted no
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY voted no
- John James Rooney D-NY voted no
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY voted no
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- Arthur George Klein D-NY voted no
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted no
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY voted no
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY voted no
- Walter B. Huber D-OH voted no
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA voted no
- Frank Buchanan D-PA voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Peterson Bryant (Pete) Jarman D-AL
- Carter Manasco D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- William Fadjo Cravens D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Richard Fielding Harless D-AZ
- Clarence Frederick Lea D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Bertrand Wesley Gearhart R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Willis Winter Bradley R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Charles Kimball Fletcher R-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Robert Fay Rockwell R-CO
- William Jennings Miller R-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Ellsworth Bishop Foote R-CT
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- John Williams Gwynne R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Thomas Leonard Owens R-IL
- Robert Joseph Twyman R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Anton Joseph Johnson R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- George Evan Howell R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- William Grant Stratton R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Robert Allen Grant R-IN
- George W. Gillie R-IN
- Forest Arthur Harness R-IN
- Noble Jacob Johnson R-IN
- Gerald Wayne Landis R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Raymond Smiley Springer R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Virgil Munday Chapman D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- James Domengeaux D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Charles Russell Clason R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Charles Laceille Gifford R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- Hugh Allen Meade D-MD
- Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Bartel John Jonkman R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Frederick Van Ness Bradley R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Harold Francis Youngblood R-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- George Edward Mackinnon R-MN
- Edward James Devitt R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Harold Knutson R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Samuel Washington (Wat) Arnold R-MO
- Max Schwabe R-MO
- William Clay Cole R-MO
- Albert Lee Reeves Jr. R-MO
- Marion Tinsley Bennett R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Parke Monroe Banta R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Walter Christian Ploeser R-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Madison Whittington D-MS
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Jerome Bayard Clark D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Charles Raymond Robertson R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Asbury Mathews Jr. R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Leander Sundstrom R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Georgia Lee Lusk D-NM
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Gregory Mcmahon R-NY
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- Robert Joseph Nodar Jr. R-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Ellsworth Brewer Buck R-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- David Matthew Potts R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Edward Julius Elsaesser R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Raymond Hugh Burke R-OH
- Robert Franklin Jones R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Edward Oscar Mccowen R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Homer Alonzo Ramey R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Percy Wilfred Griffiths R-OH
- Henderson Haverfield Carson R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Earl Ramage Lewis R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Preston Elmer Peden D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- James A. Gallagher R-PA
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Franklin John Maloney R-PA
- George William Sarbacher Jr. R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- E. Wallace Chadwick R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Mitchell Jenkins R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- William Josiah Crow R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Harve Tibbott R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- John Ralph Mcdowell R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- William Wirt Courtney D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Joseph Jefferson Mansfield D-TX
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Robert Ewing Thomason D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Patrick Henry Drewry D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- James Lindsay Almond Jr. D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- John William Flannagan Jr. D-VA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- William Henry Stevenson R-WI
- John Charles Brophy R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Francis Johnson Love R-WV
- Melvin Claude Snyder R-WV
- Edward Gay Rohrbough R-WV
- Hubert Summers Ellis R-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- John Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Leo Frederick Rayfiel D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Benjamin J. Rabin D-NY
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Alfred James Elliott D-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Emory Hilliard Price D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Joseph Edward Hendricks D-FL
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Abe McGregor Goff R-ID
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Roy Clippinger R-IL
- Edward Archibald Mitchell R-IN
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Earle C. Clements D-KY
- Wendell Howes Meade R-KY
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Howard Aldridge Coffin R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Charles Jasper Bell D-MO
- Orville Zimmerman D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- John Hamlin Folger D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Howard Homan Buffett R-NE
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Fred Allan Hartley Jr. R-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- Charles Hinton Russell R-NV
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Hadwen Carlton Fuller R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Walter Gresham Andrews R-NY
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Glen Dale Johnson D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Ross Rizley R-OK
- Robert Neill Mcgarvey R-PA
- Charles Lewis Gerlach R-PA
- James Paul Scoblick R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Chester Heilman Gross R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Milton Horace West D-TX
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Homer Raymond Jones R-WA
- Fred Barthold Norman R-WA
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Did not vote
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Louis Leon Ludlow D-IN
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- William Lewis R-KY
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Leo Isacson O-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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