House roll call 125 · 89th Congress · Aug 25, 1965
To pass H.R. 2580, the amended immigration and nationality act.
On Aug 25, 1965, the House voted 318–95 (HR 2580). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 214–76, Republicans 110–25. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 101 members voted against their own party.
During the 89th Congress (1965–1966), Lyndon B. Johnson was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 318
- No
- 95
- Did not vote
- 17
- Date
- Aug 25, 1965
By party
- Democrats214 yes · 76 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Republicans110 yes · 25 no · 7 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted no
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted no
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted no
- James Douglas Martin R-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- Oren Harris D-AR voted no
- H. Allen Smith R-CA voted no
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted no
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- Edward John Gurney R-FL voted no
- William Cato Cramer R-FL voted no
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted no
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA voted no
- Howard Hollis (Bo) Callaway R-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- John William Davis D-GA voted no
- James Russell Tuten D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID voted no
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- Ralph Harvey R-IN voted no
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY voted no
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted no
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted no
- Prentiss Lafayette Walker R-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted no
- Ralph James Scott D-NC voted no
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC voted no
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted no
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted no
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted no
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC voted no
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
- E. S. Johnny Walker D-NM voted no
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM voted no
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted no
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted no
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH voted no
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted no
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC voted no
- Albert William Watson D-SC voted no
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC voted no
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC voted no
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC voted no
- James Henry Quillen R-TN voted no
- John James Duncan R-TN voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN voted no
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN voted no
And 21 more.
The bill
H.R. 2580: To amend the Immigration and Nationality Act, and for other purposes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- James William Trimble D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- George Frederick Senner Jr. D-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Harlan Francis Hagen D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Ronald Brooks Cameron D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Kenneth Warren Dyal D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Roy Harrison Mcvicker D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Donald Jay Irwin D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Bernard Francis Grabowski D-CT
- Harris Brown Mcdowell Jr. D-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- James Armstrong Mackay D-GA
- Charles Longstreet Weltner D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- John Richard Schmidhauser D-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Bert Andrew Bandstra D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Stanley Lloyd Greigg D-IA
- John Robert Hansen D-IA
- Compton Ignatius White Jr. D-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Darwin Gale Schisler D-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price 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
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- Chester Louis Mize R-KS
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Charles Rowland Peaslee Farnsley D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- James Hobson Morrison 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
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Hervey Gilbert Machen D-MD
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Carlton Ralph Sickles D-MD
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Weston Edward Vivian D-MI
- Paul Harold Todd Jr. D-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- John C. Mackie D-MI
- Robert Paul Griffin R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Raymond Francis Clevenger D-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Billie Sunday Farnum D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Alec Gehard Olson D-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Rolland W. Redlin D-ND
- Clair Armstrong Callan D-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Joseph Oliva Huot D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Thomas Charles Mcgrath Jr. D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Paul Joseph Krebs D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Herbert Tenzer D-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Eugene James Keogh D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Abraham Jacob Multer D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- John Goodchild Dow D-NY
- Joseph Yale Resnick D-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- John Joyce Gilligan D-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Rodney Marvin Love D-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres 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
- Robert E. Sweeney D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson Jr. D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Herman Toll D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Nathaniel Neiman Craley Jr. D-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- John Edward Fogarty D-RI
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- George William Grider D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX
- David Sjodahl King D-UT
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Lynn Ellsworth Stalbaum D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- John Abner Race D-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- James Douglas Martin R-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Edward John Gurney R-FL
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA
- Howard Hollis (Bo) Callaway R-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- James Russell Tuten D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Bell Williams D-MS
- Prentiss Lafayette Walker R-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- 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
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- E. S. Johnny Walker D-NM
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Albert William Watson D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Did not vote
- Arthur Glenn Andrews R-AL
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- James Harvey R-MI
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Theodore Roosevelt Kupferman R-NY
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Lera Millard Thomas D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- James Kee D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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