The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS H.R. 1537.
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.
Every roll call on H.R. 1537
How each state's senators voted
In 25 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 3 every one voted no; 1 was 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: 2 yes, 0 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: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 2 yes, 0 no
- Wisconsin: 2 yes, 0 no
- Michigan: 2 yes, 0 no
- New York: 2 yes, 0 no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wyoming: no member on this roll call
- South Dakota: no member on this roll call
- Iowa: 2 yes, 0 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- California: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: no member on this roll call
- Nebraska: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 1 yes, 1 no
- Virginia: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- 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, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 0 no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: no member on this roll call
- Louisiana: 2 yes, 0 no
- Mississippi: 2 yes, 0 no
- Alabama: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 1 yes, 0 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 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- George Eliphaz Spencer (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- George Goldthwaite (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Arkansas 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Franklin Rice (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Powell Clayton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
California 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Cornelius Cole (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Eugene Casserly (Democrat) — YEA
Connecticut 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Orris Sanford Ferry (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Alfred Buckingham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Eli Saulsbury (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Florida 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Abijah Gilbert (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Ward Osborn (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 2 yes, 0 no
Iowa 2 yes, 0 no
Illinois 2 yes, 0 no
Indiana 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Kansas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Caldwell (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
- John White Stevenson (Democrat) — YEA
Louisiana 2 yes, 0 no
Massachusetts 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Sumner (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Wilson (Republican) — YEA
Maryland 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Vickers (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Thomas Hamilton (Democrat) — YEA
Maine 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hannibal Hamlin (Republican) — NAY
- Lot Myrick Morrill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Michigan 2 yes, 0 no
Minnesota 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alexander Ramsey (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Windom (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Missouri 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Carl Schurz (Liberal Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Francis Preston Blair Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
Mississippi 2 yes, 0 no
North Carolina 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Pool (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Nebraska 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Phineas Warren Hitchcock (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Weston Tipton (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Aaron Harrison Cragin (Republican) — YEA
- James Willis Patterson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Jersey 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (Republican) — NAY
- John Potter Stockton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Warren Nye (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Morris Stewart (Republican) — YEA
New York 2 yes, 0 no
Ohio 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Allen Granberry Thurman (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Sherman (Republican) — YEA
Oregon 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Winslow Corbett (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Kerr Kelly (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Scott (Republican) — NAY
- Simon Cameron (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Bowen Anthony (Republican) — YEA
- William Sprague (Republican) — NOT VOTING
South Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Cooper (Democrat) — YEA
- William Gannaway Brownlow (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Texas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Winright Flanagan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Morgan Calvin Hamilton (Republican) — YEA
Virginia 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Francis Lewis (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Warfield Johnston (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Vermont 2 yes, 0 no
Wisconsin 2 yes, 0 no
West Virginia 1 yes, 1 no
Every vote, by name — 73 members
Select any member to pull their file.
