House roll call 118 · 81st Congress · Oct 13, 1949
H RES 390. Resolution providing for the consideration of and waiving all points of order against the joint resolution (SJ RES 134) to amend the national housin
On Oct 13, 1949, the House voted 290–34 (HRE 390). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 201–1, Republicans 88–33, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 34 members voted against their own party.
During the 81st Congress (1949–1950), Harry S. Truman was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 290
- No
- 34
- Did not vote
- 13
- Date
- Oct 13, 1949
By party
- Democrats201 yes · 1 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Republicans88 yes · 33 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA voted no
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA voted no
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA voted no
- William Silas Hill R-CO voted no
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted no
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL voted no
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL voted no
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL voted no
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted no
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME voted no
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted no
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted no
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI voted no
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted no
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH voted no
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted no
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted no
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted no
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted no
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH voted no
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH voted no
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA voted no
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA voted no
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted no
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted no
- James Grove Fulton R-PA voted no
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD voted no
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI voted no
- John William Byrnes R-WI voted no
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott 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
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp 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
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Chester Anton Chesney D-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Harold Himmel Velde R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Thurman Charles Crook D-IN
- Edward H. Kruse D-IN
- John Richard Walsh D-IN
- James Ellsworth Noland D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- William P. Bolton D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Clare Magee D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Philip James Welch D-MO
- Theodore Leonard Irving D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Raymond Willard Karst D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-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
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- William Lemke R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Esten Miles D-NM
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- William Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- George Howard Wilson D-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Hugo Sheridan Sims Jr. D-SC
- James Butler Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jesse Martin Combs D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Joseph Franklin Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- Martin Gorski D-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- James Joseph Murphy D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Harry James Davenport D-PA
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Did not vote
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- Robert Lewis Coffey Jr. D-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Ben Hugh Guill R-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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