H.R. 30. Grant consent of Congress to compact creating federal-interstate commission to administer water resources of northeast U.S. Baldwin motion to recommi

On Aug 2, 1961, the House voted 140–261 (HR 30). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 1–240, Republicans 145–28. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 29 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: 140
No: 261
Did not vote: 13
Date: Aug 2, 1961

By party

Democrats1 yes · 240 no · 10 didn’t vote
Republicans145 yes · 28 no · 3 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Alphonzo Bell R-CA voted no
John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO voted no
Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT voted no
Abner Woodruff Sibal R-CT voted no
Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
Frank Bradford Morse R-MA voted no
William Henry Bates R-MA voted no
Hastings Keith R-MA voted no
Laurence Curtis R-MA voted no
Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted no
Peter Adams Garland R-ME voted no
Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME voted no
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME voted no
Chester Earl Merrow R-NH voted no
Otis Grey Pike D-NY voted yes
Seymour Halpern R-NY voted no
William H. Milliken Jr. R-PA voted no
Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA voted no
Ivor David Fenton R-PA voted no
John Irving Whalley R-PA voted no
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA voted no
John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted no
Leon Harry Gavin R-PA voted no
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA voted no
Robert James Corbett R-PA voted no
Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA voted no
Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT voted no
Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA voted no
Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
William Somers Mailliard R-CA
John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
Gordon Leo Mcdonough 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
Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
Peter Hoyt Dominick R-CO
William Cato Cramer R-FL
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
Noah Morgan Mason R-IL
John Bayard Anderson R-IL
Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
Robert Henry Michel R-IL
Robert Bruce Chiperfield R-IL
Paul Findley R-IL
William Lee Springer R-IL
Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
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
William Henry Avery R-KS
Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS
Walter Lewis Mcvey Jr. R-KS
Garner E. Shriver R-KS
Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
Eugene Siler R-KY
Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
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
James Harvey R-MI
Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
William S. Broomfield R-MI
Albert Harold Quie R-MN
Ancher Nelsen R-MN
Clark Macgregor R-MN
Walter Henry Judd R-MN
Herman Carl Andersen R-MN
Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
James Franklin Battin R-MT
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
Perkins Bass R-NH
William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
Milton Willits Glenn R-NJ
James Coats Auchincloss R-NJ
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
William Beck Widnall R-NJ
Frank Charles Osmers Jr. R-NJ
George Marvin Wallhauser R-NJ
Otis Grey Pike D-NY
Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
Frank John Becker R-NY
John Henry Ray R-NY
John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
Paul Albert Fino R-NY
Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
James Ernest Wharton R-NY
Carleton James King R-NY
Clarence Evans Kilburn R-NY
Alexander Pirnie R-NY
Roy Walter Riehlman R-NY
John Taber R-NY
Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
Jessica McCullough Weis R-NY
Harold Charles Ostertag R-NY
William Edward Miller 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
Jackson Edward Betts 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
Albin Walter Norblad Jr. R-OR
Edwin Russell Durno R-OR
Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
William Warren Scranton R-PA
Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
John Crain Kunkel R-PA
Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
George Atlee Goodling R-PA
James Grove Fulton R-PA
Benjamin Reifel R-SD
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
Louise Goff Reece R-TN
Howard Henry Baker R-TN
Bruce Reynolds Alger R-TX
Richard Harding Poff R-VA
Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
Alfred John (Jack) Westland R-WA
Catherine Dean May 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
John William Byrnes R-WI
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
William Henry Harrison R-WY

How each representative voted: No

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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