The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO PASS H.R. 270.
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. 270
How each state's members voted
In 4 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 3 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Hampshire: 4 yes, 0 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: 3 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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: 3 yes, 6 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 2 yes, 3 no
- Connecticut: 5 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 4 yes, 11 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 4 yes, 1 no, 3 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: 0 yes, 1 no
- North Carolina: 4 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 5 yes, 1 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, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or 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 5 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Chauncey Goodrich (Federalist) — YEA
- Elizur Goodrich (Federalist) — YEA
- John Cotton Smith (Federalist) — YEA
- John Davenport (Federalist) — YEA
- Roger Griswold (Federalist) — YEA
- Samuel Whittlesey Dana (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- William Edmond (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Asheton Bayard Sr. (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Taliaferro (Federalist) — NAY
- James Jones (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Kentucky 0 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- John Fowler (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Terry Davis (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Massachusetts 8 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Bailey Bartlett (Federalist) — YEA
- Ebenezer Mattoon (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- George Thacher (Federalist) — YEA
- Harrison Gray Otis (Federalist) — YEA
- John Reed (Federalist) — YEA
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Lemuel Williams (Federalist) — YEA
- Levi Lincoln (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nathan Read (Federalist) — YEA
- Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist) — YEA
- Phanuel Bishop (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Silas Lee (Federalist) — YEA
- Theodore Sedgwick (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- William Shepard (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 4 yes, 1 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Gabriel Christie (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- George Baer Jr. (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- George Dent (Federalist) — YEA
- John Chew Thomas (Federalist) — YEA
- John Dennis (Federalist) — YEA
- Joseph Hopper Nicholson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Craik (Federalist) — YEA
North Carolina 4 yes, 5 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Archibald Henderson (Federalist) — YEA
- David Stone (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Joseph Dickson (Federalist) — YEA
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Dobbs Spaight (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Williams (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Barry Grove (Federalist) — YEA
- William Henry Hill (Federalist) — YEA
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
New Hampshire 4 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 2 yes, 3 no
New York 3 yes, 5 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Livingston (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Glen (Federalist) — YEA
- John Bird (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Thompson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jonas Platt (Federalist) — YEA
- Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Philip van Cortlandt (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Theodorus Bailey (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- William Cooper (Federalist) — YEA
Pennsylvania 3 yes, 6 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Gallatin (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Henry Woods (Federalist) — YEA
- John Andre Hanna (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smilie (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Stewart (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Wilkes Kittera (Federalist) — YEA
- Joseph Hiester (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Michael Leib (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Richard Thomas (Federalist) — YEA
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Waln (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 5 yes, 1 no
Tennessee 0 yes, 1 no
Virginia 4 yes, 11 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Anthony New (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- David Holmes (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Henry Lee (Federalist) — YEA
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Johns Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Nicholas (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Eggleston (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Josiah Parker (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Leven Powell (Federalist) — YEA
- Littleton Waller Tazewell (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Page (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Goode (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Jordan Cabell (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Evans (Federalist) — YEA
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Lewis Richard Morris (Federalist) — YEA
- Matthew Lyon (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Every vote, by name — 107 members
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