House roll call 19 · 82nd Congress · May 2, 1951
HR 3790. On harris amend. (southwestern power admin.-strike out $3,925000 and ins ert $3,375,000).
On May 2, 1951, the House voted 222–173 (HR 3790). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 54–168, Republicans 178–14, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 68 members voted against their own party.
During the 82nd Congress (1951–1952), Harry S. Truman was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 222
- No
- 173
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- May 2, 1951
By party
- Democrats54 yes · 168 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Republicans178 yes · 14 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted yes
- George William Andrews D-AL voted yes
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL voted yes
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR voted yes
- William Frank Norrell D-AR voted yes
- Oren Harris D-AR voted yes
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA voted no
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT voted yes
- Chester Bartow Mcmullen D-FL voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL voted yes
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL voted yes
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted yes
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted yes
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA voted yes
- John Stephens Wood D-GA voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted yes
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA voted yes
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA voted yes
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted yes
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA voted yes
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted yes
- Harold Christian Hagen R-MN voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted yes
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted yes
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC voted yes
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted yes
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC voted yes
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC voted yes
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC voted yes
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC voted yes
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
- Ernest Greenwood D-NY voted yes
- James George Donovan D-NY voted yes
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY voted no
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY voted yes
- Lowell Stockman R-OR voted no
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR voted no
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC voted yes
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted yes
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN voted no
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted yes
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX voted yes
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA voted yes
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA voted yes
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA voted yes
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley D-VA voted yes
- Clarence Godber Burton D-VA voted yes
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA voted yes
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA voted yes
- Thomas Bacon Fugate D-VA voted yes
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA voted no
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA voted no
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA voted no
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA voted no
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI voted no
- Merlin Hull R-WI voted no
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV voted yes
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV voted yes
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Laurie Calvin Battle D-AL
- Boyd Anderson Tackett D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- John Zuinglius Anderson R-CA
- Allan Oakley Hunter R-CA
- Thomas Harold Werdel R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- C. Norris Poulson R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Abraham Alexander Ribicoff D-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Caleb Boggs R-DE
- Chester Bartow Mcmullen D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- William Courtland Lantaff D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Dwight Laing Rogers D-FL
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- William McDonald (Don) Wheeler D-GA
- John Stephens Wood D-GA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- John Travers Wood R-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Richard Bernard Vail R-IL
- Fred Ernst Busbey R-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Edgar Allan Jonas R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt 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
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Edward Halsey Jenison R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Cecil William (Runt) Bishop R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Albert McDonald Cole R-KS
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Clifford Ragsdale Hope R-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- James Stephen Golden R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Asa Leonard Allen D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Angier Louis Goodwin R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Christian Archibald Herter R-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Frank Fellows R-ME
- George Meader 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
- Fred Lewis Crawford R-MI
- Ruth Thompson 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
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Orland Kay Armstrong R-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell R-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten 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
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Richard Thurmond Chatham D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Frank Ertel Carlyle D-NC
- Robert Lee Doughton D-NC
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones D-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- Fred George Aandahl R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Howard Homan Buffett 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
- Charles Aubrey Eaton R-NJ
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Harry Lancaster Towe R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Ernest Greenwood D-NY
- Leonard Wood Hall R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Christopher Columbus Mcgrath D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Edwin Arthur Hall R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Cornelius Butler R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Charles Henry Elston R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Alvin F. Weichel R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- George Harrison Bender R-OH
- George Blaine Schwabe R-OK
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Hardie Scott R-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Albert Clinton Vaughn Sr. R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Wilson Darwin Gillette R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Edward Lewis Sittler Jr. R-PA
- Louis Edward Graham R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Harmar Denny Denny Jr. R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Joseph Raleigh Bryson D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Thomas Augustus Pickett D-TX
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary 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
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Erland Harold Hedrick D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Edward Degraffenried D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- John Robert Murdock D-AZ
- Harold Ambrose Patten D-AZ
- Clair Engle D-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Franck Roberts Havenner D-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Samuel William Yorty D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Clinton Dotson Mckinnon D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- John Andrew Mcguire D-CT
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- Albert Sidney Camp D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Adolph Joachim Sabath D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- John Albert Whitaker D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Joseph Bengal Bates D-KY
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- John Foster Furcolo D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer D-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Donoghue O'Brien D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-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
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- John Elliott Rankin D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- John Hosea Kerr D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Charles Bennett Deane D-NC
- Monroe Minor Redden D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Charles Robert Howell D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Edward Joseph Hart D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Louis Gary Clemente D-NY
- Thomas Vincent Quinn D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Louis Benjamin Heller D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly 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
- James Joseph Murphy D-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. D-NY
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- William Thomas Byrne D-NY
- Edward Grimes Breen D-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Henry Frazier Reams I-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
- William Grady Stigler D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Lowell Stockman R-OR
- Homer Daniel Angell R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- James Francis Lind D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- James Patton Sutton 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
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry 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
- Walter Edward Rogers 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
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt 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
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-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
- John Kee D-WV
Voted present
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Ernest King Bramblett R-CA
- James Isaac Dolliver R-IA
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- Roy Orchard Woodruff R-MI
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Charles Joseph Kersten R-WI
- Reid Fred Murray R-WI
Did not vote
- Edward Eugene Cox D-GA
- Thomas Rust Underwood D-KY
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- John Berchmans Sullivan D-MO
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Tripp Ross R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Frank Buchanan D-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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