The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO AMEND H. R. 337 ( 10 STAT. 189, MARCH 3, 1853), A BILL MAKING APPROPRIATION FOR THE CIVIL AND DIPLOMATIC EXPENSES OF GOVERNMENT FOR FISCAL 1854, BY STRIKING OUT THE FOLLOWING; NEITHER THE OFFICE OF THE SECR…
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).
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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.
Every roll call on H.R. 337
How each state's senators voted
In 11 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 11 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 senators voted.
- All yes
- All no
- Split
- No yes or no vote
- Alaska: no member on this roll call
- Maine: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 2 no
- New Hampshire: 1 yes, 1 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: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 1 yes, 1 no
- New York: 1 yes, 1 no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 1 no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 2 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: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 2 no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 0 no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 1 no
- California: 2 yes, 0 no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: no member on this roll call
- Missouri: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Maryland: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 1 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 1 no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 0 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 2 yes, 0 no
- Alabama: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 1 yes, 1 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 2 yes, 0 no
- Florida: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alabama 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Fitzpatrick (Democrat) — YEA
- Jeremiah Clemens (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 1 yes, 1 no
California 2 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 1 yes, 1 no
- Isaac Toucey (Democrat) — YEA
- Truman Smith (Whig) — NAY
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Presley Spruance (Whig) — YEA
Florida 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jackson Morton (Whig) — NAY
- Stephen Russell Mallory (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 1 yes, 1 no
Iowa 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Caesar Dodge (Democrat) — NAY
- George Wallace Jones (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Shields (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Stephen Arnold Douglas (Democrat) — NAY
Indiana 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jesse David Bright (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Pettit (Democrat) — YEA
Kentucky 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Dixon (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Rogers Underwood (Whig) — NAY
Louisiana 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pierre Soulé (Democrat) — YEA
- Solomon Weathersbee Downs (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Massachusetts 0 yes, 2 no
- Charles Sumner (Free Soil) — NAY
- John Davis (Whig) — NAY
Maryland 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Alfred Pearce (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas George Pratt (Whig) — NAY
Maine 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hannibal Hamlin (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Ware Bradbury (Democrat) — NAY
Michigan 1 yes, 1 no
- Alpheus Felch (Democrat) — NAY
- Lewis Cass (Democrat) — YEA
Missouri 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Rice Atchison (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Sheffie Geyer (Whig) — YEA
Mississippi 2 yes, 0 no
- Stephen Adams (Democrat) — YEA
- Walker Brooke (Whig) — YEA
North Carolina 1 yes, 1 no
New Hampshire 1 yes, 1 no
New Jersey 1 yes, 0 no
New York 1 yes, 1 no
- Hamilton Fish (Whig) — YEA
- William Henry Seward (Whig) — NAY
Ohio 0 yes, 2 no
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Cooper (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Brodhead (Democrat) — NAY
Rhode Island 1 yes, 1 no
South Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Chamberlain Jones (Whig) — NOT VOTING
- John Bell (Whig) — NOT VOTING
Texas 2 yes, 0 no
Virginia 2 yes, 0 no
Vermont 0 yes, 2 no
- Samuel Shethar Phelps (Whig) — NAY
- Solomon Foot (Whig) — NAY
Wisconsin 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Dodge (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Isaac Pigeon Walker (Democrat) — NAY
Every vote, by name — 61 members
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