Senate roll call 21 · 80th Congress · Mar 21, 1947
HR 2157. MC carran amend., substitute for committee amend., relating to existing and future claims.
On Mar 21, 1947, the Senate voted 35–53 (HR 2157). Result: failed. By party: Republicans 2–48, Democrats 36–8. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 10 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
- 35
- No
- 53
- Did not vote
- 2
- Date
- Mar 21, 1947
By party
- Democrats36 yes · 8 no · 2 didn’t vote
- Republicans2 yes · 48 no
Who broke with their party
- Spessard Lindsey Holland D-FL voted no
- John Holmes Overton D-LA voted no
- James Oliver Eastland D-MS voted no
- Clyde Roark Hoey D-NC voted no
- William Langer R-ND voted yes
- Kenneth Douglas Mckellar D-TN voted no
- Wilbert Lee (Pappy) O'Daniel D-TX voted no
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA voted no
- Harry Flood Byrd D-VA voted no
- George David Aiken R-VT voted yes
The bill
How each senator voted: Yes
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- James William Fulbright D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- Ernest William Mcfarland D-AZ
- Sheridan Downey D-CA
- Edwin Carl Johnson D-CO
- Brien Mcmahon D-CT
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Richard Brevard Russell Jr. D-GA
- Walter Franklin George D-GA
- Glen Hearst Taylor D-ID
- Scott Wike Lucas D-IL
- Alben William Barkley D-KY
- Allen Joseph Ellender D-LA
- Herbert Romulus O'Conor D-MD
- Millard Evelyn Tydings D-MD
- James Edward Murray D-MT
- William Bradley Umstead D-NC
- William Langer R-ND
- Carl Atwood Hatch D-NM
- Dennis Chavez D-NM
- Patrick Anthony (Pat) Mccarran D-NV
- Robert Ferdinand Wagner D-NY
- John William Elmer Thomas D-OK
- Francis John Myers D-PA
- James Howard Mcgrath D-RI
- Theodore Francis Green D-RI
- Burnet Rhett Maybank D-SC
- Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston D-SC
- Arthur Thomas Stewart D-TN
- Thomas Terry (Tom) Connally D-TX
- Elbert Duncan Thomas D-UT
- George David Aiken R-VT
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Harley Martin Kilgore D-WV
- Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney D-WY
How each senator voted: No
- William Fife Knowland R-CA
- Eugene Donald Millikin R-CO
- Raymond Earl Baldwin R-CT
- Clayton Douglass Buck R-DE
- John James Williams R-DE
- Spessard Lindsey Holland D-FL
- Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper R-IA
- George Allison Wilson R-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Charles Wayland Brooks R-IL
- Homer Earl Capehart R-IN
- William Ezra Jenner R-IN
- Arthur Capper R-KS
- Clyde Martin Reed R-KS
- John Sherman Cooper R-KY
- John Holmes Overton D-LA
- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. R-MA
- Leverett Saltonstall R-MA
- Ralph Owen Brewster R-ME
- Wallace Humphrey White Jr. R-ME
- Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg R-MI
- Homer Samuel Ferguson R-MI
- Edward John Thye R-MN
- Joseph Hurst Ball R-MN
- Forrest C. Donnell R-MO
- James Preston Kem R-MO
- James Oliver Eastland D-MS
- Zales Nelson Ecton R-MT
- Clyde Roark Hoey D-NC
- Milton Ruben Young R-ND
- Hugh Alfred Butler R-NE
- Kenneth Spicer Wherry R-NE
- Charles William Tobey R-NH
- Henry Styles (Styles) Bridges R-NH
- Albert Wahl Hawkes R-NJ
- Howard Alexander Smith R-NJ
- George Wilson Malone R-NV
- Irving McNeil Ives R-NY
- John William Bricker R-OH
- Robert Alphonso Taft R-OH
- Edward Hall Moore R-OK
- Guy Cordon R-OR
- Wayne Lyman Morse R-OR
- Edward Martin R-PA
- John Chandler (Chan) Gurney R-SD
- Kenneth Douglas Mckellar D-TN
- Wilbert Lee (Pappy) O'Daniel D-TX
- Arthur Vivian Watkins R-UT
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Harry Flood Byrd D-VA
- Ralph Edward Flanders R-VT
- Harry Pulliam Cain R-WA
- Alexander Wiley R-WI
- Joseph Raymond Mccarthy R-WI
- William Chapman Revercomb R-WV
- Edward Vivian Robertson R-WY
Voted present
Did not vote
Other votes
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