House roll call 62 · 85th Congress · Aug 1, 1957
HR 6763. Amend PL 704 83rd Congress, to allow construction of tunnel from d.c. To virginia. Hays motion to strike enacting clause (kill the bill). Rejected.
On Aug 1, 1957, the House voted 175–194 (HR 6763). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 84–134, Republicans 108–77. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 161 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
- 175
- No
- 194
- Did not vote
- 11
- Date
- Aug 1, 1957
By party
- Democrats84 yes · 134 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Republicans108 yes · 77 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-AL voted yes
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL voted yes
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted yes
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
- John Francis Shelley D-CA voted yes
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted no
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA voted no
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA voted no
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA voted yes
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted yes
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted no
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA voted yes
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted yes
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA voted no
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA voted yes
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO voted yes
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted no
- Albert William Cretella R-CT voted no
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT voted no
- William Cato Cramer R-FL voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL voted yes
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA voted no
- Merwin Coad D-IA voted yes
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID voted yes
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL voted yes
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL voted no
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL voted yes
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL voted no
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL voted no
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN voted no
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN voted yes
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN voted no
- William Henry Avery R-KS voted no
- Myron Virgil George R-KS voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA voted yes
- Torbert Hart Macdonald 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
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI voted yes
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted no
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted no
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted yes
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI voted yes
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted yes
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI voted yes
- Roy William Wier D-MN voted yes
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN voted yes
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
- Fred Marshall D-MN voted yes
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN voted yes
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN voted yes
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan 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
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted yes
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT voted yes
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT voted yes
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted yes
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND voted no
And 81 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Hubert Baxter Scudder R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- William Silas Hill R-CO
- Edwin Hyland May Jr. R-CT
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- Antoni Nicholas Sadlak R-CT
- Harry Garner Haskell Jr. R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Karl Miles Le Compte R-IA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham R-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Emmet Francis Byrne R-IL
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Russell Watson Keeney R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Wesley Vursell R-IL
- F. Jay Nimtz R-IN
- John Valentine Beamer R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Errett Power Scrivner R-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Marshall Robsion Jr. R-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Walter Heselton R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Donald William Nicholson R-MA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman 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
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- August Herman Andresen R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Coya Gjesdal Knutson D-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- 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
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. R-NY
- Paul Albert Fino 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
- John Taber R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- David Short Dennison R-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Charles Orlando Porter D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Earl Chudoff D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley D-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Jere Cooper D-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Lawrence Henry Smith R-WI
- Donald Edgar Tewes R-WI
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-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
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- William Elmer Neal R-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings 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
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Allen Jr. R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Albert William Cretella R-CT
- James Thomas Patterson R-CT
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Henry Oscar Talle R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- William Estus Mcvey R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Sidney Elmer Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Cecil Murray Harden R-IN
- Charles Bruce Brownson R-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Myron Virgil George R-KS
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Noble Jones Gregory D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- George Shannon Long D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-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
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- George Adams Shuford D-NC
- Usher Lloyd Burdick R-ND
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Charles Anderson Wolverton R-NJ
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Robert Winthrop Kean R-NJ
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski D-NJ
- Vincent John Dellay R-NJ
- John Joseph Dempsey D-NM
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-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
- William Robert Williams R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- William Sterling Cole R-NY
- Edmund Patrick Radwan R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Cliff Clevenger R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Thomas Albert Jenkins R-OH
- John Martin Vorys R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- J. Harry Mcgregor R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Toby Morris D-OK
- Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan D-PA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- Simon Walter Stauffer R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard 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
- 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
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Otis Halbert Holmes R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Albert Paul Morano R-CT
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- George Meader R-MI
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara R-MN
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Henry Jepson Latham R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Benjamin Franklin James R-PA
- Samuel Kerns Mcconnell Jr. R-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Herman Peter Eberharter D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- William Adams Dawson R-UT
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Did not vote
Other votes
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