House roll call 32 · 81st Congress · Mar 29, 1949
HR 3704. Provide additional revenue for d.c. Motion to recommit.
On Mar 29, 1949, the House voted 177–218 (HR 3704). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 140–106, Republicans 44–120, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 150 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
- 177
- No
- 218
- Did not vote
- 12
- Date
- Mar 29, 1949
By party
- Democrats140 yes · 106 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Republicans44 yes · 120 no · 5 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted no
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL voted no
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL voted no
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- James William Trimble D-AR voted no
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR voted no
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR voted no
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA voted yes
- William Silas Hill R-CO voted yes
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO voted no
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE voted yes
- James Hardin Peterson D-FL voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted no
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA voted no
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA voted no
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Carl Vinson D-GA voted no
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted no
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted no
- Paul Brown D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted yes
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID voted yes
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted yes
- Ralph Harvey R-IN voted yes
- James Stephen Golden R-KY voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted yes
- John William Mccormack D-MA voted no
- William P. Bolton D-MD voted no
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD voted no
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME voted yes
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI voted yes
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN voted yes
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted yes
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted no
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS voted no
- William Madison Whittington D-MS voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT voted yes
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC voted no
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC voted no
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted no
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted no
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC voted no
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted no
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC voted no
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC voted no
- William Lemke R-ND voted yes
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted yes
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted yes
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ voted yes
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted yes
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ voted yes
And 70 more.
The bill
H.R. 3704: To provide additional revenue for the District. of Columbia
How each representative voted: Yes
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- Richard Joseph Welch R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Cecil Fielding White D-CA
- Helen Gahagan Douglas D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- Chase Going Woodhouse D-CT
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Stephen Pace D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- John Carfield Sanborn R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Neil Joseph Linehan D-IL
- James Vincent Buckley D-IL
- Martin Gorski 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
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell 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
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs D-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- George Gregory Sadowski D-MI
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Harold Christian Hagen 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
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Raymond Willard Karst D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Wesley Abner D'Ewart R-MT
- William Lemke R-ND
- Eugene Daniel O'Sullivan D-NE
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Joseph Lawrence Pfeifer D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- James Joseph Heffernan D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Vito Anthony Marcantonio O-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Walter Aloysius Lynch D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- John Clay Davies D-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Anthony Francis Tauriello D-NY
- Chester Charles Gorski D-NY
- Earl Thomas Wagner D-OH
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- Thomas Henry Burke D-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- Walter B. Huber D-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Robert Crosser D-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Franklin Herbert Lichtenwalter R-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Anthony Cavalcante D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Robert Lewis Coffey Jr. D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Harry James Davenport D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Hugo Sheridan Sims Jr. D-SC
- Dayton Edward Phillips R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- Francis Eugene Worley D-TX
- Walter Keil Granger D-UT
- Hugh Burnton Mitchell D-WA
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Andrew John Biemiller D-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
- Merlin Hull R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Lincoln Ramsay D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Samuel Francis Hobbs D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Edward Degraffenried 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
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- Richard Milhous Nixon R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- John Henry Marsalis D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- John Davis Lodge R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Hardin Peterson 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
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson 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
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Ralph Edwin Church R-IL
- Chauncey William Reed R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason 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
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-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
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- George Joseph Bates R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- William P. Bolton D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- Earl Cory Michener R-MI
- Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- William Wallace Blackney R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Albert Joseph Engel R-MI
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- Charles Edward Potter R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- George Anthony Dondero R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin 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
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Mary Teresa Norton D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Esten Miles D-NM
- William Kingsland Macy R-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- James Joseph Murphy D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Jay Le Fevre R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- James Wolcott Wadsworth Jr. R-NY
- William Louis Pfeiffer R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- John Mcsweeney D-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Franklin (Dixie) Gilmer D-OK
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- George Howard Wilson D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Robert Fleming Rich R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- James Butler Hare D-SC
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Francis Higbee Case R-SD
- John Jennings Jr. R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- James Patton Sutton D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- 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
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas D-TX
- Ed Lee Gossett D-TX
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. D-TX
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Kenneth Mills Regan D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone D-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA
- Charles Albert Plumley R-VT
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Frank Bateman Keefe R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Frank Aloysius Barrett R-WY
Voted present
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Compton Ignatius White D-ID
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Alfred Lee Bulwinkle D-NC
- Karl Stefan R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- John Parnell Thomas R-NJ
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- Andrew Lawrence Somers D-NY
- Frederick Cleveland Smith R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Schuyler Otis Bland D-VA
- John Kee D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
Did not vote
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. O-NY
- Sol Bloom D-NY
- John Phillips Saylor R-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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