House roll call 25 · 89th Congress · Mar 26, 1965
To recommit H.R. 2362, a bill to strengthen and improve educational quality and opportunity in the nation's elementary and secondary schools, to education and l
On Mar 26, 1965, the House voted 149–267 (HR 2362). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 60–228, Republicans 92–42. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 102 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
- 149
- No
- 267
- Did not vote
- 20
- Date
- Mar 26, 1965
By party
- Democrats60 yes · 228 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Republicans92 yes · 42 no · 8 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-AL voted yes
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL voted yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted no
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted no
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA voted no
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA voted no
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA voted no
- Craig Hosmer R-CA voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted yes
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL voted yes
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted yes
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted yes
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted yes
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Charles Longstreet Weltner D-GA voted yes
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted yes
- John William Davis D-GA voted yes
- James Russell Tuten D-GA voted yes
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL voted no
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted no
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA voted yes
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- William Henry Bates R-MA voted no
- Joseph William Martin Jr. R-MA voted no
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD voted no
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD voted no
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- John Bell Williams D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- James Franklin Battin R-MT voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted yes
- Harold Dunbar Cooley D-NC voted yes
- Ralph James Scott D-NC voted yes
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC voted yes
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted yes
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC voted yes
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted yes
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ voted no
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ voted no
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted yes
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY voted no
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY voted no
- Seymour Halpern R-NY voted no
- John Vliet Lindsay R-NY voted no
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY voted no
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY voted no
- Carleton James King R-NY voted no
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY voted no
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted no
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH voted no
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted no
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK voted no
- John Jarman D-OK voted yes
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR voted yes
- George Robert Watkins R-PA voted no
- Willard Sevier Curtin R-PA voted no
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted no
- John Irving Whalley R-PA voted no
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA voted no
- John Crain Kunkel R-PA voted no
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted no
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA voted no
And 22 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Arthur Glenn Andrews R-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- James Douglas Martin R-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Jesse Arthur Younger R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Donald Ray (Billy) Matthews D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons 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
- Charles Longstreet Weltner D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- James Russell Tuten D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld 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
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Ralph Harvey R-IN
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- Chester Louis Mize R-KS
- Robert Fred Ellsworth R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Theo Ashton Thompson D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- J. Edward Hutchinson 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
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-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
- 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
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- John Jarman D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Thomas Jefferson Murray D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- 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
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- Howard Worth Smith D-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Ralph Julian Rivers D-AK
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- James William Trimble D-AR
- Oren Harris D-AR
- 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
- John Finley Baldwin Jr. R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk 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
- Ronald Brooks Cameron D-CA
- James Roosevelt D-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
- James Boyd Utt 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
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- James Armstrong Mackay D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum 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
- 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
- Darwin Gale Schisler D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-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
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Charles Rowland Peaslee Farnsley D-KY
- Frank Leslie Chelf D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis 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
- 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
- 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
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Weston Edward Vivian D-MI
- Paul Harold Todd Jr. D-MI
- John C. Mackie D-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
- Billie Sunday Farnum D-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Alec Gehard Olson 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
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Rolland W. Redlin D-ND
- Clair Armstrong Callan D-NE
- Joseph Oliva Huot D-NH
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Thomas Charles Mcgrath Jr. D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer 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
- E. S. Johnny Walker D-NM
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- 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
- Leo William O'Brien D-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- John Joyce Gilligan D-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Rodney Marvin Love D-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Walter Henry Moeller D-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Robert Thompson Secrest D-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Robert E. Sweeney D-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Jed Joseph Johnson Jr. D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman 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
- 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
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Nathaniel Neiman Craley Jr. D-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-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
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- George William Grider D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Albert Thomas D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Walter Edward Rogers D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- David Sjodahl King D-UT
- William Pat Jennings D-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-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
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- John Abner Race D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Stanley Roger Tupper R-ME
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Paul Caruthers Jones D-MO
- Herbert Covington Bonner D-NC
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Theodore Roosevelt Kupferman R-NY
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Paul Bartram Dague R-PA
- Albert William Watson D-SC
- Lera Millard Thomas D-TX
- Clark Wallace Thompson D-TX
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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