House roll call 69 · 84th Congress · Jul 28, 1955
H RES 317. Provide three-hour limitation on debate time for HR 6645, a bill to amend natural gas act to exempt natural gas producers from public utility regula
On Jul 28, 1955, the House voted 273–135 (HRE 317). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 135–91, Republicans 144–50. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 141 members voted against their own party.
During the 84th Congress (1955–1956), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 273
- No
- 135
- Did not vote
- 3
- Date
- Jul 28, 1955
By party
- Democrats135 yes · 91 no · 3 didn’t vote
- Republicans144 yes · 50 no
Who broke with their party
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL voted no
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Clair Engle D-CA voted no
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted no
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted no
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA voted no
- James Roosevelt D-CA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT voted no
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted no
- Albert William Cretella R-CT voted no
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted no
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA voted no
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted no
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross 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
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted no
- James Cunningham Murray D-IL voted no
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL voted no
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL voted no
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL voted no
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN voted no
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY voted no
- Brent Spence D-KY voted no
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted no
- Eugene Siler R-KY voted no
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted no
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted no
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted no
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA voted no
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted no
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD voted no
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI voted no
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI voted no
- Donald Hayworth D-MI voted no
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted no
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell D-MI voted no
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted no
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted no
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted no
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted no
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO voted no
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted no
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO voted no
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO voted no
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted no
- Perkins Bass R-NH voted no
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ voted no
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ voted no
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted no
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ voted no
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted no
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ voted no
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ voted no
- Thomas James Tumulty D-NJ voted no
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY voted no
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY voted no
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY voted no
- Lester Holtzman D-NY voted no
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY voted no
And 61 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Lawrence Brooks Hays D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Justin Leroy Johnson R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Phillips R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Richard William Hoffman R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan 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
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-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
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- William Henry Avery 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
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- 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
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Charles Pembroke Nelson R-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Jesse Paine Wolcott R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Ruth Thompson R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox 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
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Dewey Jackson Short R-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- Orvin Benonie Fjare R-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain 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
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Woodrow Wilson Jones D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Jackson Burton Chase R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Antonio M. Fernández D-NM
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Clarence Clifton Young R-NV
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Oliver Payne Bolton R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Samuel Harrison Coon R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Mathew Harris Ellsworth R-OR
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Karl Clarence King R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- James Prioleau Richards D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Harold Orrin Lovre R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- James Percy Priest D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Brady Preston Gentry D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- John Junior Bell D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford 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
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- Edward John Robeson Jr. D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Maurice Gwinn Burnside D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross 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
- James Cunningham Murray D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Donald Hayworth D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- Thomas Millet Hand R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Thomas James Tumulty D-NJ
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Arthur George Klein D-NY
- Irwin Delmore Davidson D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- Sidney Asher Fine D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Thomas Granahan D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Vera Daerr Buchanan D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
Voted present
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- James George Donovan D-NY
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
Did not vote
Other votes
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