HR 2203. Provide for a decennial census of housing.

On May 9, 1949, the House voted 225–50 (HR 2203). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 174–2, Republicans 54–51. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 53 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: 225
No: 50
Did not vote: 14
Date: May 9, 1949

By party

Democrats174 yes · 2 no · 8 didn’t vote
Republicans54 yes · 51 no · 5 didn’t vote
Others0 yes · 0 no · 1 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA voted no
Ernest King Bramblett R-CA voted no
C. Norris Poulson R-CA voted no
John Phillips R-CA voted no
James Caleb Boggs R-DE voted no
Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA voted no
Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted no
Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted no
James Isaac Dolliver R-IA voted no
Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted no
Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
John Carfield Sanborn R-ID voted no
Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL voted no
Ralph Edwin Church R-IL voted no
Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
Rolla Coral Mcmillen R-IL voted no
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
Albert McDonald Cole R-KS voted no
Errett Power Scrivner R-KS voted no
Herbert Alton Meyer R-KS voted no
Wint Smith R-KS voted no
Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted no
Robert Hale R-ME voted no
Paul Werntz Shafer R-MI voted no
Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
Albert Joseph Engel R-MI voted no
Charles Edward Potter R-MI voted no
Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
Dewey Jackson Short R-MO voted no
Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE voted no
Norris H. Cotton R-NH voted no
William Kingsland Macy R-NY voted no
John Taber R-NY voted no
Daniel Alden Reed R-NY voted no
William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted no
Clarence J. Brown R-OH voted no
Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH voted no
J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH voted no
Stephen Marvin Young D-OH voted no
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA voted no
Paul Bartram Dague R-PA voted no
Ivor David Fenton R-PA voted no
Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA voted no
Richard Murray Simpson R-PA voted no
Louis Edward Graham R-PA voted no
Francis Higbee Case R-SD voted no
Charles Albert Plumley R-VT voted no
Russell Vernon Mack R-WA voted no
Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI voted no
John William Byrnes R-WI voted no
Merlin Hull R-WI voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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