House roll call 121 · 87th Congress · Feb 20, 1962
H. RES. 549. Closed rule prohibiting amendments to bill increasing debt limit to $300 billion until july 1, 1962.
On Feb 20, 1962, the House voted 258–133 (HRE 549). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 213–30, Republicans 54–109. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 84 members voted against their own party.
During the 87th Congress (1961–1962), John F. Kennedy was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 258
- No
- 133
- Did not vote
- 16
- Date
- Feb 20, 1962
By party
- Democrats213 yes · 30 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Republicans54 yes · 109 no · 3 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Thomas Dale Alford D-AR voted no
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted yes
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA voted yes
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted yes
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted yes
- John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA voted no
- James Curran Davis D-GA voted no
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA voted no
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL voted yes
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted yes
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN voted yes
- William Henry Avery R-KS voted yes
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA voted yes
- William Henry Bates R-MA voted yes
- Hastings Keith R-MA voted yes
- Laurence Curtis R-MA voted yes
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted yes
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD voted yes
- Peter Adams Garland R-ME voted yes
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME voted yes
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted yes
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI voted yes
- James Harvey R-MI voted yes
- John Bonifas Bennett R-MI voted yes
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted yes
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN voted yes
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Ralph James Scott D-NC voted no
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted no
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC voted no
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ voted yes
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ voted yes
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ voted yes
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ voted yes
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ voted yes
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted no
- Seymour Halpern R-NY voted yes
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY voted yes
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted yes
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY voted yes
- Jessica McCullough Weis R-NY voted yes
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY voted yes
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH voted yes
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR voted yes
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA voted yes
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA voted yes
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA voted yes
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA voted yes
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA voted yes
- John Irving Whalley R-PA voted yes
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted yes
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted yes
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- Louise Goff Reece R-TN voted yes
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN voted yes
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX voted no
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX voted no
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
And 4 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- Frank William Boykin D-AL
- George McInvale Grant D-AL
- Kenneth Allison Roberts D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Carl Atwood Elliott D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- Catherine Dorris Norrell D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Clement Woodnutt Miller D-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- John Francis Shelley D-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
- Harry Richard Sheppard 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
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Frank Kowalski D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- John Leonard Pilcher D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Carl Vinson D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Daniel Ken Inouye D-HI
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Merwin Coad D-IA
- Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
- Ralph R. Harding D-ID
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
- Roland Victor Libonati D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Edward Rowan Finnegan D-IL
- Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-IN
- William Henry Avery R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- James Floyd Breeding D-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
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Joseph Lane D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Laurence Curtis R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- Thomas Francis Johnson D-MD
- Daniel Baugh Brewster D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Richard Estep Lankford D-MD
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Peter Adams Garland R-ME
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- John Bonifas Bennett 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
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Walter Henry Judd R-MN
- Fred Marshall D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC
- Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson 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
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-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
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
- Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Herbert Zelenko D-NY
- James Christopher Healey D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
- Jessica McCullough Weis R-NY
- Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
- Robert Eugene Cook D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Victor Eugene Wickersham D-OK
- Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Kathryn Elizabeth Granahan D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
- Herman Toll D-PA
- William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Ivor David Fenton R-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
- Louise Goff Reece R-TN
- Howard Henry Baker R-TN
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins 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
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-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
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Joe Madison Kilgore D-TX
- J. T. Rutherford D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Morris Blaine Peterson D-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
- William Munford Tuck D-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
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-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
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Maude Elizabeth Kee D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Thomas Dale Alford D-AR
- Gordon Leo Mcdonough R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Peter Hoyt Dominick R-CO
- Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Elijah Lewis Forrester D-GA
- James Curran Davis D-GA
- Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- James Edward Bromwell R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Marguerite Stitt Church R-IL
- Elmer Joseph Hoffman R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Earl Wilson R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Donald Cogley Bruce R-IN
- Walter Lewis Mcvey Jr. R-KS
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- Eugene Siler R-KY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA
- Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
- George Meader R-MI
- August Edgar Johansen R-MI
- Clare Eugene Hoffman R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Arthur Winstead D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Ralph James Scott D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Alvin Paul Kitchin D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Don Levingston Short R-ND
- Hjalmar Carl Nygaard R-ND
- Phillip Hart Weaver R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Ralph Frederick Beermann R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
- Frank John Becker R-NY
- John Henry Ray R-NY
- Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
- Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
- James Ernest Wharton R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- John Taber R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- John Raymond Pillion R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Gordon Harry Scherer R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Paul Fornshell Schenck R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Tom Van Horn Moorehead R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edwin Russell Durno R-OR
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- William Warren Scranton R-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
- Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson 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
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Voted present
- Albert McKinley Rains D-AL
- George Jr. Huddleston D-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
- Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
- Perkins Bass R-NH
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
- William Edward Miller R-NY
- Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
- Ross Bass D-TN
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
- Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
Did not vote
- William Frank Norrell D-AR
- Stewart Lee Udall D-AZ
- George O. Chambers R-IN
- Overton Brooks D-LA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz D-MI
- Harold Martin Ryan D-MI
- Louis Charles Rabaut D-MI
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Lester Holtzman D-NY
- Walter Mann Mumma R-PA
- Corinne Boyd Riley D-SC
- John Jacob Riley D-SC
- Brazilla Carroll Reece R-TN
- Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
- Paul Joseph Kilday D-TX
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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