House roll call 30 · 85th Congress · Apr 17, 1957
HR 6871. Fiscal 1958 appropriations for state and justice departments, the judiciary and U.S. Information agency. Amendment to cut funds provided for internati
On Apr 17, 1957, the House voted 167–205 (HR 6871). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 74–138, Republicans 107–81. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 155 members voted against their own party.
During the 85th Congress (1957–1958), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 167
- No
- 205
- Did not vote
- 11
- Date
- Apr 17, 1957
By party
- Democrats74 yes · 138 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans107 yes · 81 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Frank William Boykin D-AL voted yes
- George McInvale Grant D-AL voted yes
- George William Andrews D-AL voted yes
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted yes
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL voted yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA voted no
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted no
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted no
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA voted no
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA voted yes
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA voted no
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted no
- Edwin Hyland May Jr. R-CT voted no
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted no
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT voted no
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted no
- Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted yes
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted yes
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted yes
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted no
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA voted no
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL voted yes
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- William Lee Springer R-IL voted no
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted no
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL voted yes
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted no
- Earl Wilson R-IN voted no
- William Henry Avery R-KS voted no
- Myron Virgil George R-KS voted no
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted yes
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted yes
- Overton Brooks D-LA voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA voted yes
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted yes
- George Shannon Long D-LA voted yes
- John Walter Heselton R-MA voted no
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted yes
- Laurence Curtis R-MA voted no
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA voted no
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted no
- Edward Tylor Miller R-MD voted no
- James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD voted no
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted yes
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD voted no
- Robert Hale R-ME voted no
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME voted no
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted no
- Robert John Mcintosh R-MI voted no
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
- George Henry Christopher D-MO voted yes
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted yes
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO voted yes
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO voted yes
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted yes
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC voted yes
- Ralph James Scott D-NC voted yes
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC voted yes
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted yes
And 75 more.
The bill
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
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Russell Watson Keeney R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- F. Jay Nimtz R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert 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
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- George Meader R-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Otto Krueger R-ND
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
- Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Martin Dies Jr. D-TX
- William Adams Dawson 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
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- William Elmer Neal R-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
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- 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
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Edwin Hyland May Jr. R-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-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
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- DeWitt Stephen Hyde R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Robert Hale R-ME
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Robert John Mcintosh R-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Vincent John Dellay R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh 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
- Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- Ludwig Teller D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Isidore Dollinger D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- David Short Dennison R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Charles Orlando Porter D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Donald Edgar Tewes R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
Voted present
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- James Bernard Bowler D-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Bernard William (Pat) Kearney R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD
- Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
Did not vote
Other votes
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