The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS S. 657, REPEALING THE FRANKING PRIVILEGE OF MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. (P. 1356)
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 senators voted
In 14 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 11 every one voted no; 4 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: 1 yes, 1 no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 2 yes, 0 no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 1 no
- Massachusetts: 1 yes, 1 no
- Oregon: 1 yes, 1 no
- Nevada: 0 yes, 2 no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Indiana: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Maryland: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arkansas: 0 yes, 2 no
- Tennessee: 0 yes, 2 no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 0 yes, 2 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 0 yes, 2 no
- Mississippi: no member on this roll call
- Alabama: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: no member on this roll call
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: no member on this roll call
- Florida: 0 yes, 2 no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alabama 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Eliphaz Spencer (Republican) — NAY
- Willard Warner (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 0 yes, 2 no
California 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Cornelius Cole (Republican) — NAY
- John Conness (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Dixon (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Orris Sanford Ferry (Republican) — YEA
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Asheton Bayard Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Willard Saulsbury Sr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Florida 0 yes, 2 no
Iowa 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Harlan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Wilson Grimes (Republican) — YEA
Illinois 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Lyman Trumbull (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Yates (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Indiana 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Kansas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edmund Gibson Ross (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Clarke Pomeroy (Republican) — YEA
Kentucky 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Garrett Davis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Clay McCreery (Democrat) — YEA
Louisiana 0 yes, 2 no
Massachusetts 1 yes, 1 no
Maryland 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Vickers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Pinkney Whyte (Democrat) — YEA
Maine 1 yes, 1 no
Michigan 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Jacob Merritt Howard (Republican) — NAY
- Zachariah Chandler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Minnesota 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Ramsey (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel Sheldon Norton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Daniel Drake (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Brooks Henderson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Pool (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Carter Abbott (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Nebraska 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Milton Thayer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Weston Tipton (Republican) — NAY
New Hampshire 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harrison Cragin (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Willis Patterson (Republican) — YEA
New Jersey 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Gilmore Cattell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Nevada 0 yes, 2 no
New York 2 yes, 0 no
Ohio 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Wade (Republican) — YEA
- John Sherman (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Oregon 1 yes, 1 no
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Rollin Buckalew (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Simon Cameron (Republican) — NAY
Rhode Island 1 yes, 1 no
South Carolina 0 yes, 2 no
Tennessee 0 yes, 2 no
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Franklin Edmunds (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Justin Smith Morrill (Republican) — YEA
Wisconsin 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Rood Doolittle (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Timothy Otis Howe (Republican) — YEA
West Virginia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Peter Godwin van Winkle (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Waitman Thomas Willey (Republican) — YEA
Every vote, by name — 66 members
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