The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND H.R. 32, A BILL TO AUGMENT THE MILITARY FORCE OF THE UNITED STATES; BY PROVIDING FOR AN ADDITIONAL PROVISIONAL MILITARY FORCE, SPECIFICS OF WHICH ARE ENUMERATED IN THE AMENDMENT. (P. 709)
The official yea, nay, present, and not-voting totals.
Every member's recorded position linked directly to their file.
- This vote predates the chambers' digital roll-call records (Senate begins 1989, House 1990). It is reproduced from the official Journals of Congress as compiled by Voteview (UCLA).
How the vote fell · we worked out this outcome from the vote counts (see sources)
What was on the floor
Full text predates digital publication (GPO coverage begins with the 103rd Congress, 1993). The official description above is the recorded question. The original text lives in the printed Statutes at Large and the Journals of Congress.
How each state's members voted
In 1 state every member on the roll voted yes; in 5 every one voted no; 8 were split. Each square is a state, placed roughly where it sits on the map. Select a state to see how each of its members voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: no member on this roll call
- Vermont: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Washington: no member on this roll call
- Idaho: no member on this roll call
- Montana: no member on this roll call
- North Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Minnesota: no member on this roll call
- Illinois: no member on this roll call
- Wisconsin: no member on this roll call
- Michigan: no member on this roll call
- New York: 6 yes, 4 no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 8 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: no member on this roll call
- Nevada: no member on this roll call
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: no member on this roll call
- Indiana: no member on this roll call
- Ohio: no member on this roll call
- Pennsylvania: 1 yes, 8 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 6 yes, 1 no
- California: no member on this roll call
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: no member on this roll call
- Missouri: no member on this roll call
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 2 no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 1 yes, 13 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 3 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: no member on this roll call
- Arkansas: no member on this roll call
- Tennessee: no member on this roll call
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 10 no
- South Carolina: 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: no member on this roll call
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: no member on this roll call
- Georgia: 0 yes, 2 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: no member on this roll call
- Florida: no member on this roll call
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Connecticut 6 yes, 1 no
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Latimer (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 0 yes, 2 no
Kentucky 0 yes, 2 no
Massachusetts 8 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Artemas Ward (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Benjamin Goodhue (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- David Cobb (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Dwight Foster (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Fisher Ames (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- George Thacher (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Henry Dearborn (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Peleg Coffin Jr. (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Peleg Wadsworth (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Dexter (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Samuel Holten (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Shearjashub Bourne (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Theodore Sedgwick (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- William Lyman (Anti-Administration) — NAY
Maryland 3 yes, 1 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Gabriel Christie (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Gabriel Duvall (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- George Dent (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Samuel Smith (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Sprigg (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Uriah Forrest (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- William Hindman (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- William Vans Murray (Pro-Administration) — YEA
North Carolina 0 yes, 10 no
- Alexander Mebane (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Benjamin Williams (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- James Gillespie (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Joseph McDowell (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Joseph Winston (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Matthew Locke (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Nathaniel Macon (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Thomas Blount (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- William Barry Grove (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- William Johnson Dawson (Anti-Administration) — NAY
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Jeremiah Smith (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- John Samuel Sherburne (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Nicholas Gilman (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Paine Wingate (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 2 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Clark (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Elias Boudinot (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- John Beatty (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Jonathan Dayton (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Lambert Cadwalader (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
New York 6 yes, 4 no
- Ezekiel Gilbert (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Henry Glen (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- James Gordon (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- John Evert van Alen (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- John Watts (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Peter van Gaasbeck (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Philip van Cortlandt (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Silas Talbot (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Theodorus Bailey (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Thomas Tredwell (Anti-Administration) — NAY
Pennsylvania 1 yes, 8 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Gregg (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Daniel Hiester (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- James Armstrong (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- John Smilie (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- John Wilkes Kittera (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Fitzsimons (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Thomas Hartley (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Scott (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- William Findley (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- William Irvine (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- William Montgomery (Anti-Administration) — NAY
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Virginia 1 yes, 13 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Bedford Venable (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Andrew Moore (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Anthony New (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Carter Bassett Harrison (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Preston (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Francis Walker (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- George Hancock (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Coles (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- James Madison Jr. (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- John Heath (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- John Nicholas (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- John Page (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Neville (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Josiah Parker (Pro-Administration) — NAY
- Richard Bland Lee (Pro-Administration) — YEA
- Robert Rutherford (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Samuel Griffin (Pro-Administration) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Claiborne (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- William Branch Giles (Anti-Administration) — NAY
Vermont 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Israel Smith (Anti-Administration) — NAY
- Nathaniel Niles (Anti-Administration) — NOT VOTING
Every vote, by name — 106 members
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