Senate roll call 195 · 86th Congress · Sep 5, 1959
HR. 8678. Mccarthy amend. To repeal tax credit on divided incomes & divert to the highway trust fund certain portions of the fed. Tax on autos, in addition to
On Sep 5, 1959, the Senate voted 40–43 (HR 8678). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 45–17, Republicans 3–30. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 20 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
- 40
- No
- 43
- Did not vote
- 3
- Date
- Sep 5, 1959
By party
- Democrats45 yes · 17 no · 2 didn’t vote
- Republicans3 yes · 30 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ voted no
- Joseph Allen Frear Jr. D-DE voted no
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL voted no
- Spessard Lindsey Holland D-FL voted no
- Herman Eugene Talmadge D-GA voted no
- Richard Brevard Russell Jr. D-GA voted no
- James Oliver Eastland D-MS voted no
- John Cornelius Stennis D-MS voted no
- William Langer R-ND voted yes
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM voted no
- Dennis Chavez D-NM voted no
- Robert Samuel Kerr D-OK voted no
- Wayne Lyman Morse D-OR voted no
- James Strom Thurmond D-SC voted no
- Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston D-SC voted no
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD voted yes
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA voted no
- Harry Flood Byrd D-VA voted no
- Alexander Wiley R-WI voted yes
- Jennings Randolph D-WV voted no
The bill
How each senator voted: Yes
- Edward Lewis (Bob) Bartlett D-AK
- Ernest Henry Gruening D-AK
- John Jackson Sparkman D-AL
- Joseph Lister Hill D-AL
- James William Fulbright D-AR
- John Little Mcclellan D-AR
- Clair Engle D-CA
- John Albert Carroll D-CO
- Thomas Joseph Dodd D-CT
- Oren Ethelbirt Long D-HI
- Paul Howard Douglas D-IL
- Rupert Vance Hartke D-IN
- Russell Billiu Long D-LA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy D-MA
- Edmund Sixtus Muskie D-ME
- Patrick Vincent Mcnamara D-MI
- Philip Aloysius Hart D-MI
- Eugene Joseph Mccarthy D-MN
- Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. D-MN
- Thomas Carey Hennings Jr. D-MO
- William Stuart (Stuart) Symington D-MO
- James Edward Murray D-MT
- Michael Joseph (Mike) Mansfield D-MT
- Samuel James Ervin Jr. D-NC
- William Langer R-ND
- Harrison Arlington Williams Jr. D-NJ
- Alan Harvey Bible D-NV
- Howard Walter Cannon D-NV
- Frank John Lausche D-OH
- Stephen Marvin Young D-OH
- Almer Stillwell Mike Monroney D-OK
- Richard Lewis Neuberger D-OR
- Joseph Sill Clark D-PA
- John Orlando Pastore D-RI
- Theodore Francis Green D-RI
- Karl Earl Mundt R-SD
- Albert Arnold Gore D-TN
- Carey Estes Kefauver D-TN
- Lyndon Baines Johnson D-TX
- Ralph Webster Yarborough D-TX
- Frank Edward (Ted) Moss D-UT
- Henry Martin (Scoop) Jackson D-WA
- Warren Grant Magnuson D-WA
- Alexander Wiley R-WI
- William Proxmire D-WI
- Robert Carlyle Byrd D-WV
- Gale William Mcgee D-WY
- Joseph Christopher O'Mahoney D-WY
How each senator voted: No
- Carl Trumbull Hayden D-AZ
- Thomas Henry Kuchel R-CA
- Gordon Llewellyn Allott R-CO
- Prescott Sheldon Bush R-CT
- John James Williams R-DE
- Joseph Allen Frear Jr. D-DE
- George Armistead Smathers D-FL
- Spessard Lindsey Holland D-FL
- Herman Eugene Talmadge D-GA
- Richard Brevard Russell Jr. D-GA
- Hiram Leong Fong R-HI
- Bourke Blakemore Hickenlooper R-IA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin R-IA
- Henry Clarence Dworshak R-ID
- Everett McKinley Dirksen R-IL
- Homer Earl Capehart R-IN
- Andrew Frank Schoeppel R-KS
- Frank Carlson R-KS
- John Sherman Cooper R-KY
- Thruston Ballard Morton R-KY
- Leverett Saltonstall R-MA
- James Glenn Beall R-MD
- John Marshall Butler R-MD
- Margaret Chase Smith R-ME
- James Oliver Eastland D-MS
- John Cornelius Stennis D-MS
- Milton Ruben Young R-ND
- Carl Thomas Curtis R-NE
- Roman Lee Hruska R-NE
- Henry Styles (Styles) Bridges R-NH
- Norris H. Cotton R-NH
- Clifford Philip Case R-NJ
- Clinton Presba Anderson D-NM
- Dennis Chavez D-NM
- Jacob Koppel Javits R-NY
- Kenneth Barnard Keating R-NY
- Robert Samuel Kerr D-OK
- Wayne Lyman Morse D-OR
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. R-PA
- James Strom Thurmond D-SC
- Olin DeWitt Talmadge Johnston D-SC
- Wallace Foster Bennett R-UT
- Absalom Willis Robertson D-VA
- Harry Flood Byrd D-VA
- George David Aiken R-VT
- Winston Lewis Prouty R-VT
- Jennings Randolph D-WV
Voted present
Did not vote
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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