H.R. 8384. Amend federal aviation act of 1958 to make airplane hijacking a federal offense punishable by imprisonment or death and provide penalties for other

On Aug 21, 1961, the House voted 374–5 (HR 8384). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 228–6, Republicans 149–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 6 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: 374
No: 5
Did not vote: 13
Date: Aug 21, 1961

By party

Democrats228 yes · 6 no · 10 didn’t vote
Republicans149 yes · 0 no · 3 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Roland Victor Libonati D-IL voted no
Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted no
Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY voted no
William Fitts Ryan D-NY voted no
Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI voted no
Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
Frank William Boykin D-AL
George McInvale Grant D-AL
George William Andrews 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
Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
James William Trimble D-AR
Oren Harris D-AR
Catherine Dorris Norrell D-AR
John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
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
George Paul Miller D-CA
Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
Charles Samuel Gubser 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
Craig Hosmer R-CA
Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
H. Allen Smith R-CA
Edgar Willard Hiestand R-CA
James Charles Corman D-CA
Clyde Gilman Doyle D-CA
Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
James Roosevelt D-CA
Harry Richard Sheppard D-CA
James Boyd Utt R-CA
Dalip Singh (Judge) Saund D-CA
Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
John Edgar Chenoweth R-CO
Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
Horace Seely-Brown Jr. R-CT
Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
John Stephen Monagan D-CT
Frank Kowalski D-CT
William Cato Cramer R-FL
Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
James Andrew Haley D-FL
Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
George Elliott Hagan D-GA
John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
James Curran Davis D-GA
Carl Vinson D-GA
John William Davis D-GA
Iris Faircloth Blitch D-GA
Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
Daniel Ken Inouye D-HI
Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
James Edward Bromwell R-IA
Harold Royce Gross R-IA
John Henry Kyl R-IA
Neal Edward Smith D-IA
Merwin Coad D-IA
Benton Franklin Jensen R-IA
Charles Bernard Hoeven R-IA
Gracie Bowers Pfost D-ID
Ralph R. Harding D-ID
William Levi Dawson D-IL
Barratt O'Hara D-IL
William Thomas Murphy D-IL
Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
Thomas Joseph O'Brien D-IL
Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
Edward Rowan Finnegan D-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
Peter Francis Mack Jr. D-IL
William Lee Springer R-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
Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
John Edward Roush D-IN
Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
William Gilmer Bray R-IN
Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton D-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
James Floyd Breeding D-KS
Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
William Huston Natcher 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
Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
James Hobson Morrison D-LA
Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
Harold Barnett Mcsween D-LA
Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
Edward Patrick Boland 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
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
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
Clifford Guy Mcintire R-ME
George Meader R-MI
August Edgar Johansen R-MI
Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
James Grant O'Hara D-MI
James Harvey R-MI
Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
Victor Alfred Knox R-MI
John Bonifas Bennett R-MI
John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
William S. Broomfield R-MI
Ancher Nelsen R-MN
Walter Henry Judd R-MN
Fred Marshall D-MN
Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
William Joseph Randall D-MO
Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
Clarence Andrew Cannon D-MO
Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
Morgan Moore Moulder D-MO
Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
Frank Ellis Smith D-MS
John Bell Williams D-MS
William Arthur Winstead D-MS
William Meyers Colmer D-MS
Arnold Olsen D-MT
James Franklin Battin R-MT
Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
David Newton Henderson D-NC
Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC
Ralph James Scott D-NC
Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC
Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
Hugh Quincy Alexander D-NC
Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
Roy Arthur Taylor D-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
Chester Earl Merrow R-NH
Perkins Bass R-NH
William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
Charles Samuel Joelson D-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
Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
Otis Grey Pike D-NY
Steven Boghos Derounian R-NY
Frank John Becker R-NY
Seymour Halpern R-NY
Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
Lester Holtzman D-NY
James Joseph Delaney D-NY
Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso D-NY
Eugene James Keogh D-NY
Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
John James Rooney D-NY
John Henry Ray R-NY
Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
Alfred Edward Santangelo D-NY
Leonard Farbstein D-NY
Herbert Zelenko D-NY
James Christopher Healey D-NY
Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
Charles Anthony Buckley D-NY
Edwin Benedict Dooley R-NY
Robert Raymond Barry R-NY
Katharine Price Collier St. George R-NY
James Ernest Wharton R-NY
Leo William O'Brien D-NY
Carleton James King R-NY
Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-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
Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-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
Clarence J. Brown R-OH
Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
Robert Eugene Cook D-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
Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
Page Henry Belcher R-OK
Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
Carl Bert Albert 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
Edwin Russell Durno R-OR
William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
William Joseph Green Jr. D-PA
Herman Toll D-PA
Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
William Warren Scranton R-PA
Daniel John Flood D-PA
Ivor David Fenton R-PA
Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
George Milton Rhodes D-PA
Francis Eugene Walter D-PA
John Crain Kunkel R-PA
Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
George Atlee Goodling R-PA
James Edward Van Zandt R-PA
John Herman Dent D-PA
John Phillips Saylor R-PA
Leon Harry Gavin R-PA
Carroll Dudley Kearns R-PA
Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
James Grove Fulton R-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
John Jacob Riley D-SC
William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
Robert Witherspoon Hemphill D-SC
Benjamin Reifel R-SD
Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
James Beriah Frazier Jr. D-TN
Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
Joseph Carlton Loser D-TN
Ross Bass D-TN
Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
Robert Ashton Everett 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
John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
Albert Thomas D-TX
Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
William Homer Thornberry D-TX
William Robert Poage D-TX
James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
Frank Neville Ikard D-TX
John Andrew Young 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
Robert Randolph Casey 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
Richard Harding Poff R-VA
Howard Worth Smith D-VA
Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
Catherine Dean May R-WA
Walter Franklin (Walt) Horan R-WA
Thor Carl Tollefson R-WA
Donald Hammer Magnuson D-WA
Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
Clement John Zablocki D-WI
William Kaiser Van Pelt R-WI
Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
John William Byrnes R-WI
Lester Roland Johnson D-WI
Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
Cleveland Monroe Bailey D-WV
Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
William Henry Harrison R-WY

How each representative voted: No

Voted present

Did not vote

Other votes

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