HR 2. Authorize increased diversion of water from lake michigan to illinois waterway. Passed. Nay supports President's position.

On May 22, 1957, the House voted 222–144 (HR 2). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 203–11, Republicans 37–150. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 48 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: 222
No: 144
Did not vote: 10
Date: May 22, 1957

By party

Democrats203 yes · 11 no · 6 didn’t vote
Republicans37 yes · 150 no · 4 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted yes
John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted yes
James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted yes
Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT voted yes
Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA voted yes
Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA voted yes
Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL voted yes
William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted yes
Harold Reginald Collier R-IL voted yes
Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL voted yes
Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL voted yes
Russell Watson Keeney R-IL voted yes
Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted yes
Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted yes
Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted yes
William Lee Springer R-IL voted yes
Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL voted yes
Donald William Nicholson R-MA voted yes
Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted no
John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted no
John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted no
Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO voted yes
Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted yes
Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted yes
James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted yes
William Beck Widnall R-NJ voted yes
Gordon Canfield R-NJ voted yes
Vincent John Dellay R-NJ voted yes
James Gould Polk D-OH voted no
Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH voted no
Wayne Levere Hays D-OH voted no
Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH voted no
Charles Albert Vanik D-OH voted no
Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA voted yes
Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA voted yes
Ivor David Fenton R-PA voted yes
Walter Mann Mumma R-PA voted yes
Alvin Ray Bush R-PA voted yes
Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA voted yes
Leon Harry Gavin R-PA voted yes
James Grove Fulton R-PA voted yes
Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
William Adams Dawson R-UT voted yes
Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA voted yes
Clement John Zablocki D-WI voted no
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI voted no
Lester Roland Johnson D-WI voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

How each representative voted: No

John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
Craig Hosmer R-CA
H. Allen Smith R-CA
Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
James Boyd Utt R-CA
Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
William Silas Hill R-CO
Edwin Hyland May Jr. R-CT
Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
Albert William Cretella R-CT
Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE
William Cato Cramer R-FL
Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
Harold Royce Gross R-IA
Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
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
Earl Wilson R-IN
Ralph Harvey R-IN
Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
William Henry Avery R-KS
Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
Myron Virgil George R-KS
Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
Wint Smith R-KS
John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
John Walter Heselton R-MA
William Henry Bates R-MA
Laurence Curtis R-MA
Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth R-MA
James Patrick Sinnott Devereux R-MD
Robert Hale R-ME
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
George Meader R-MI
August Edgar Johansen R-MI
Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
Robert John Mcintosh R-MI
Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
William S. Broomfield R-MI
Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
Otto Krueger R-ND
Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
Robert Dinsmore Harrison R-NE
Arthur Lewis Miller R-NE
Perkins Bass R-NH
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
Frank John Becker R-NY
Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
John Henry Ray R-NY
Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
Paul Albert Fino R-NY
Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
Ralph Waldo Gwinn 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
Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
William Robert Williams R-NY
Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
John Taber R-NY
William Sterling Cole R-NY
Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
William Edward Miller R-NY
Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
John Raymond Pillion R-NY
Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
William Emil Hess R-OH
Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
Cliff Clevenger R-OH
James Gould Polk D-OH
Clarence J. Brown R-OH
Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
David Short Dennison R-OH
John Martin Vorys R-OH
Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
William Hanes Ayres R-OH
John Earl Henderson R-OH
Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
Page Henry Belcher R-OK
Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
John Phillips Saylor R-PA
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
Richard Harding Poff R-VA
Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
Donald Edgar Tewes R-WI
Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
Clement John Zablocki D-WI
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
William Elmer Neal R-WV
Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY

Voted present

Did not vote

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