House roll call 39 · 86th Congress · Jun 12, 1959
HR 6596. Bill to create independent coal research and developement commission. Passed.
On Jun 12, 1959, the House voted 251–54 (HR 6596). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 193–10, Republicans 58–45. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 55 members voted against their own party.
During the 86th Congress (1959–1960), Dwight D. Eisenhower was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 251
- No
- 54
- Did not vote
- 8
- Date
- Jun 12, 1959
By party
- Democrats193 yes · 10 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Others0 yes · 0 no
- Republicans58 yes · 45 no · 4 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted no
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA voted no
- Craig Hosmer R-CA voted no
- H. Allen Smith R-CA voted no
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA voted no
- Joseph Franklin Holt III R-CA voted no
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA voted no
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
- William Cato Cramer R-FL voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Merwin Coad D-IA voted no
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA voted no
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted no
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted no
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
- Wint Smith R-KS voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Hastings Keith R-MA voted no
- Laurence Curtis R-MA voted no
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI voted no
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI voted no
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI voted no
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted no
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted no
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted no
- Don Levingston Short R-ND voted no
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE voted no
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE voted no
- Lawrence Brock D-NE voted no
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ voted no
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ voted no
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY voted no
- John Henry Ray R-NY voted no
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY voted no
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY voted no
- John Taber R-NY voted no
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY voted no
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY voted no
- William Emil Hess R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX voted no
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX voted no
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA voted no
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI voted no
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- George Albert Kasem D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Byron Lindberg Johnson D-CO
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Chester Bliss Bowles D-CT
- Frank Kowalski D-CT
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- Harlan Erwin Mitchell D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Paul Brown D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Steven V. Carter D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Charles Augustus Boyle D-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Edna Oakes Simpson R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Fred Wampler D-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- Earl Lee Hogan D-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Newell Adolphus George D-KS
- Denver David Hargis D-KS
- Edward Herbert Rees R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Welsh Burke D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Brent Spence D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- John Robert Foley D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Frank Morey Coffin D-ME
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- John Lesinski Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Roy William Wier D-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Charles Harrison Brown D-MO
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Lee Warren Metcalf D-MT
- LeRoy Hagen Anderson D-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Carl Thomas Durham D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- David McKee Hall D-NC
- Quentin Northrup Burdick D-ND
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio D-NJ
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Joseph Manuel Montoya D-NM
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Albert David Baumhart Jr. R-OH
- John Earl Henderson R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Robert Woodrow Levering D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed 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
- Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Stanley A. Prokop D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- John Armand Lafore Jr. R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Alvin Ray Bush R-PA
- Richard Murray Simpson R-PA
- James Michael Quigley D-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin 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
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- George Stanley Mcgovern D-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Clifford Davis D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- William Homer Thornberry D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Henry Aldous Dixon R-UT
- David Sjodahl King D-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Julian Vaughan Gary D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Burr Powell Harrison D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- William Henry Meyer D-VT
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Gerald Thomas Flynn D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- Edwin Keith Thomson R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough 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
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leo Elwood Allen R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Wint Smith R-KS
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Alvin Morell Bentley R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Lawrence Brock D-NE
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Francis Edwin Dorn R-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- William Emil Hess R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Russell Vernon Mack R-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Voted present
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Thomas Dale Alford O-AR
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Donald Lester Jackson R-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Donald Jay Irwin D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Leonard George Wolf D-IA
- Hamer Harold Budge R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Randall S. Harmon D-IN
- Joseph Walker Barr D-IN
- James Floyd Breeding D-KS
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Edith Nourse Rogers R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- James Churchill Oliver D-ME
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- George Meader R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Graham Arthur Barden D-NC
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Donald Francis Mcginley D-NE
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Gordon Canfield R-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Stuyvesant Wainwright II R-NY
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- Albert Henry Bosch R-NY
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John Vliet Lindsay 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
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Dean Park Taylor R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Jessica McCullough Weis R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- James Gould Polk D-OH
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
- Robert Eugene Cook D-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Herman Toll D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Aime Joseph Forand D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Gardner Robert Withrow R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Did not vote
- Daniel Ken Inouye D-HI
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- George Henry Christopher D-MO
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Daniel Alden Reed R-NY
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Douglas Hemphill Elliott R-PA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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