The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ADOPT AN AMENDMENT TO H.R. 5538 PERMITING FARMERS AND PRODUCERS OF TOBACCO TO SELL AT THE PLACE OF PRODUCTION SUCH TOBACCO AS IS GROWN BY THEM, AND SOLD AT RETAIL DIRECTLY TO CONSUMER, TO AN AMOUNT NOT EXCE…
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. 5538
How each state's senators voted
In 15 states every senator on the roll voted yes; in 16 every one voted no; 2 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, 2 no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 2 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 0 yes, 2 no
- Michigan: 0 yes, 2 no
- New York: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 0 yes, 2 no
- Oregon: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Nevada: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- 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, 1 no
- Ohio: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 0 yes, 2 no
- New Jersey: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 1 yes, 1 no
- Utah: no member on this roll call
- Colorado: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 2 yes, 0 no
- West Virginia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 2 yes, 0 no
- Maryland: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arizona: no member on this roll call
- New Mexico: no member on this roll call
- Kansas: 0 yes, 2 no
- Arkansas: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 2 yes, 0 no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 0 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Alabama: 2 yes, 0 no
- Georgia: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 2 yes, 0 no
- Florida: 2 yes, 0 no
Numbers are yes–no. Members who did not vote, voted present, or were paired are counted in each state's list below.
Alabama 2 yes, 0 no
Arkansas 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Augustus Hill Garland (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James David Walker (Democrat) — YEA
California 1 yes, 1 no
Colorado 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Miles Chilcott (Republican) — NAY
- Nathaniel Peter Hill (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Connecticut 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Joseph Roswell Hawley (Republican) — NAY
- Orville Hitchcock Platt (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Eli Saulsbury (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Francis Bayard Sr. (Democrat) — NAY
Florida 2 yes, 0 no
Georgia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Harvey Hill (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Emerson Brown (Democrat) — YEA
Iowa 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Wilson McDill (Republican) — NAY
- William Boyd Allison (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Illinois 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Davis (Independent) — NOT VOTING
- John Alexander Logan (Republican) — NAY
Indiana 1 yes, 1 no
Kansas 0 yes, 2 no
Kentucky 2 yes, 0 no
Louisiana 2 yes, 0 no
Massachusetts 0 yes, 2 no
Maryland 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Arthur Pue Gorman (Democrat) — YEA
- James Black Groome (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Maine 0 yes, 2 no
Michigan 0 yes, 2 no
Minnesota 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Samuel James Renwick McMillan (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Windom (Republican) — NAY
Missouri 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Francis Marion Cockrell (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George Graham Vest (Democrat) — YEA
Mississippi 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Zachariah George (Democrat) — YEA
- Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
North Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alvin Saunders (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Henry van Wyck (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no
New Jersey 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- John Rhoderic McPherson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Joyce Sewell (Republican) — NOT VOTING
Nevada 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Graham Fair (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Percival Jones (Republican) — NOT VOTING
New York 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Elbridge Gerry Lapham (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Warner Miller (Republican) — NAY
Ohio 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Hunt Pendleton (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Sherman (Republican) — NAY
Oregon 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- James Harvey Slater (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- La Fayette Grover (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Pennsylvania 0 yes, 2 no
Rhode Island 0 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Bowen Anthony (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich (Republican) — NOT VOTING
South Carolina 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 2 yes, 0 no
Texas 2 yes, 0 no
Virginia 2 yes, 0 no
Vermont 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- George Franklin Edmunds (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Justin Smith Morrill (Republican) — NAY
Wisconsin 0 yes, 2 no
West Virginia 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Henry Gassaway Davis (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Johnson Newlon Camden (Democrat) — YEA
Every vote, by name — 76 members
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