The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
S 1415. AMEND SECTION 7 OF THE WAR CLAIMS ACT OF 1948. MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PASS.
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How each state's members voted
In 47 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 0 every one voted no; 0 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: 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Vermont: 1 yes, 0 no
- New Hampshire: 2 yes, 0 no
- Washington: 6 yes, 0 no
- Idaho: 2 yes, 0 no
- Montana: 2 yes, 0 no
- North Dakota: 2 yes, 0 no
- Minnesota: 9 yes, 0 no
- Illinois: 18 yes, 0 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 7 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Michigan: 15 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 22 yes, 0 no, 22 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 11 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 no
- Wyoming: 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- South Dakota: 2 yes, 0 no
- Iowa: 8 yes, 0 no
- Indiana: 10 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Ohio: 18 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 22 yes, 0 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 11 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- California: 16 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Colorado: 4 yes, 0 no
- Nebraska: 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 11 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 7 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: 3 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Virginia: 4 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 6 yes, 0 no
- Delaware: 1 yes, 0 no
- Arizona: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Mexico: 2 yes, 0 no
- Kansas: 6 yes, 0 no
- Arkansas: 7 yes, 0 no
- Tennessee: 8 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 8 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: 6 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Louisiana: 5 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 7 yes, 0 no
- Alabama: 3 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Georgia: 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: no member on this roll call
- Texas: 18 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Florida: 5 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 3 yes, 0 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Albert McKinley Rains (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Carl Atwood Elliott (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Edward Degraffenried (Democrat) — YEA
- Frank William Boykin (Democrat) — PRESENT
- George McInvale Grant (Democrat) — YEA
- George William Andrews (Democrat) — YEA
- Kenneth Allison Roberts (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Laurie Calvin Battle (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. (Democrat) — PRESENT
Arkansas 7 yes, 0 no
Arizona 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Harold Ambrose Patten (Democrat) — YEA
- John Robert Murdock (Democrat) — PRESENT
California 16 yes, 0 no, 7 did not vote yes or no
- Allan Oakley Hunter (Republican) — YEA
- C. Norris Poulson (Republican) — PRESENT
- Cecil Rhodes King (Democrat) — YEA
- Chester Earl Holifield (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Clair Engle (Democrat) — YEA
- Clinton Dotson McKinnon (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Clyde Gilman Doyle (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Donald Lester Jackson (Republican) — YEA
- Ernest King Bramblett (Republican) — YEA
- Franck Roberts Havenner (Democrat) — YEA
- George Paul Miller (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Gordon Leo McDonough (Republican) — YEA
- Harry Richard Sheppard (Democrat) — YEA
- Hubert Baxter Scudder (Republican) — YEA
- John Carl Williams Hinshaw (Republican) — PRESENT
- John Francis Shelley (Democrat) — PRESENT
- John Joseph Allen Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- John Phillips (Republican) — YEA
- John Zuinglius Anderson (Republican) — YEA
- Justin Leroy Johnson (Republican) — YEA
- Patrick Jerome Hillings (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel William Yorty (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Harold Werdel (Republican) — YEA
Colorado 4 yes, 0 no
Connecticut 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Delaware 1 yes, 0 no
Florida 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Georgia 9 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Sidney Camp (Democrat) — YEA
- Carl Vinson (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Eugene Cox (Democrat) — YEA
- Elijah Lewis Forrester (Democrat) — YEA
- Henderson Lovelace Lanham (Democrat) — YEA
- James Curran Davis (Democrat) — YEA
- John Stephens Wood (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Paul Brown (Democrat) — YEA
- Prince Hulon Preston Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- William McDonald Wheeler (Democrat) — YEA
Iowa 8 yes, 0 no
- Benton Franklin Jensen (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Bernard Hoeven (Republican) — YEA
- Harold Royce Gross (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Oscar Talle (Republican) — YEA
- James Isaac Dolliver (Republican) — YEA
- Karl Miles Le Compte (Republican) — YEA
- Paul Harvey Cunningham (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Ellsworth Martin (Republican) — YEA
Idaho 2 yes, 0 no
Illinois 18 yes, 0 no, 8 did not vote yes or no
- Adolph Joachim Sabath (Democrat) — YEA
- Cecil William Bishop (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Melvin Price (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Wesley Vursell (Republican) — PRESENT
- Chauncey William Reed (Republican) — PRESENT
- Edgar Allan Jonas (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Halsey Jenison (Republican) — YEA
- Fred Ernst Busbey (Republican) — YEA
- Harold Himmel Velde (Republican) — PRESENT
- John Carl Kluczynski (Democrat) — YEA
- Leo Elwood Allen (Republican) — YEA
- Leslie Cornelius Arends (Republican) — YEA
- Marguerite Stitt Church (Republican) — YEA
- Noah Morgan Mason (Republican) — YEA
- Peter Francis Mack Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Bernard Vail (Republican) — YEA
- Richard William Hoffman (Republican) — PRESENT
- Robert Bruce Chiperfield (Republican) — PRESENT
- Sidney Elmer Simpson (Republican) — YEA
- Sidney Richard Yates (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Thomas Joseph O'Brien (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Thomas Sylvy Gordon (Democrat) — YEA
- Timothy Patrick Sheehan (Republican) — YEA
- William Estus McVey (Republican) — YEA
- William Lee Springer (Republican) — YEA
- William Levi Dawson (Democrat) — PRESENT
Indiana 10 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Cecil Murray Harden (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Abraham Halleck (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Bruce Brownson (Republican) — PRESENT
- Earl Wilson (Republican) — YEA
- Edwin Ross Adair (Republican) — YEA
- John Valentine Beamer (Republican) — YEA
- Ralph Harvey (Republican) — YEA
- Ray John Madden (Democrat) — YEA
- Shepard J. Crumpacker Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- William Gilmer Bray (Republican) — YEA
- Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton (Democrat) — YEA
Kansas 6 yes, 0 no
Kentucky 7 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Louisiana 5 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Asa Leonard Allen (Democrat) — YEA
- Edwin Edward Willis (Democrat) — YEA
- Felix Edward Hébert (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Henry Dominique Larcade Jr. (Democrat) — PRESENT
- James Hobson Morrison (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Otto Ernest Passman (Democrat) — YEA
- Overton Brooks (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. (Democrat) — YEA
Massachusetts 11 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Angier Louis Goodwin (Republican) — YEA
- Christian Archibald Herter (Republican) — YEA
- Donald William Nicholson (Republican) — YEA
- Edith Nourse Rogers (Republican) — PRESENT
- Harold Daniel Donohue (Democrat) — YEA
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Democrat) — PRESENT
- John Foster Furcolo (Democrat) — YEA
- John Walter Heselton (Republican) — YEA
- John William McCormack (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph William Martin Jr. (Republican) — PRESENT
- Philip Joseph Philbin (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Bowditch Wigglesworth (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Joseph Lane (Democrat) — YEA
- William Henry Bates (Republican) — YEA
Maryland 6 yes, 0 no
Maine 1 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Pembroke Nelson (Republican) — PRESENT
- Clifford Guy McIntire (Republican) — PRESENT
- Robert Hale (Republican) — YEA
Michigan 15 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Edward Potter (Republican) — YEA
- Clare Eugene Hoffman (Republican) — YEA
- Fred Lewis Crawford (Republican) — YEA
- George Anthony Dondero (Republican) — YEA
- George Donoghue O'Brien (Democrat) — PRESENT
- George Meader (Republican) — YEA
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Jesse Paine Wolcott (Republican) — YEA
- John Bonifas Bennett (Republican) — YEA
- John David Dingell (Democrat) — PRESENT
- John Lesinski Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Louis Charles Rabaut (Democrat) — YEA
- Paul Werntz Shafer (Republican) — YEA
- Roy Orchard Woodruff (Republican) — YEA
- Ruth Thompson (Republican) — YEA
- Thaddeus Michael Machrowicz (Democrat) — YEA
- William Wallace Blackney (Republican) — YEA
Minnesota 9 yes, 0 no
- August Herman Andresen (Republican) — YEA
- Eugene Joseph McCarthy (Democrat) — YEA
- Fred Marshall (Democrat) — YEA
- Harold Christian Hagen (Republican) — YEA
- Herman Carl Andersen (Republican) — YEA
- John Anton Blatnik (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Patrick O'Hara (Republican) — YEA
- Roy William Wier (Democrat) — YEA
- Walter Henry Judd (Republican) — YEA
Missouri 11 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan (Democrat) — YEA
- Clare Magee (Democrat) — YEA
- Clarence Andrew Cannon (Democrat) — YEA
- Claude Ignatius Bakewell (Republican) — YEA
- Dewey Jackson Short (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Melvin Karsten (Democrat) — YEA
- Morgan Moore Moulder (Democrat) — YEA
- Orland Kay Armstrong (Republican) — YEA
- Paul Caruthers Jones (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Philip James Welch (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Richard Walker Bolling (Democrat) — YEA
- Theodore Leonard Irving (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Bradford Curtis (Republican) — YEA
Mississippi 7 yes, 0 no
Montana 2 yes, 0 no
North Carolina 8 yes, 0 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Carl Thomas Durham (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Bennett Deane (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Frank Ertel Carlyle (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Graham Arthur Barden (Democrat) — YEA
- Hamilton Chamberlain Jones (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Harold Dunbar Cooley (Democrat) — YEA
- Herbert Covington Bonner (Democrat) — YEA
- John Hosea Kerr (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Monroe Minor Redden (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Thurmond Chatham (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Lee Doughton (Democrat) — YEA
- Woodrow Wilson Jones (Democrat) — YEA
North Dakota 2 yes, 0 no
Nebraska 2 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
New Hampshire 2 yes, 0 no
New Jersey 11 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alfred Dennis Sieminski (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Anderson Wolverton (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Aubrey Eaton (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Robert Howell (Democrat) — YEA
- Clifford Philip Case (Republican) — YEA
- Edward Joseph Hart (Democrat) — YEA
- Frank Charles Osmers Jr. (Republican) — PRESENT
- Gordon Canfield (Republican) — YEA
- Hugh Joseph Addonizio (Democrat) — YEA
- James Coats Auchincloss (Republican) — PRESENT
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Winthrop Kean (Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Millet Hand (Republican) — YEA
- William Beck Widnall (Republican) — PRESENT
New Mexico 2 yes, 0 no
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no
New York 22 yes, 0 no, 22 did not vote yes or no
- Abraham Jacob Multer (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Arthur George Klein (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Bernard William Kearney (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Anthony Buckley (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Christopher Columbus McGrath (Democrat) — YEA
- Clarence Evans Kilburn (Republican) — PRESENT
- Daniel Alden Reed (Republican) — YEA
- Dean Park Taylor (Republican) — PRESENT
- Donald Lawrence O'Toole (Democrat) — YEA
- Edmund Patrick Radwan (Republican) — YEA
- Edna Flannery Kelly (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Edwin Arthur Hall (Republican) — YEA
- Emanuel Celler (Democrat) — YEA
- Ernest Greenwood (Democrat) — YEA
- Eugene James Keogh (Democrat) — YEA
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr. (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Frederic René Coudert Jr. (Republican) — PRESENT
- Harold Charles Ostertag (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Jepson Latham (Republican) — PRESENT
- Isidore Dollinger (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Jacob Koppel Javits (Republican) — YEA
- James Ernest Wharton (Republican) — YEA
- James George Donovan (Democrat) — PRESENT
- James Joseph Delaney (Democrat) — PRESENT
- James Joseph Heffernan (Democrat) — PRESENT
- James Joseph Murphy (Democrat) — YEA
- John Cornelius Butler (Republican) — YEA
- John James Rooney (Democrat) — YEA
- John Taber (Republican) — YEA
- Katharine Price Collier St. George (Republican) — PRESENT
- Kenneth Barnard Keating (Republican) — YEA
- Leonard Wood Hall (Republican) — PRESENT
- Louis Benjamin Heller (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Louis Gary Clemente (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Ralph Abernethy Gamble (Republican) — PRESENT
- Ralph Waldo Gwinn (Republican) — PRESENT
- Robert Tripp Ross (Republican) — YEA
- Roy Walter Riehlman (Republican) — YEA
- Sidney Asher Fine (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Victor L'Episcopo Anfuso (Democrat) — PRESENT
- William Edward Miller (Republican) — YEA
- William Robert Williams (Republican) — YEA
- William Sterling Cole (Republican) — YEA
Ohio 18 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Alvin F. Weichel (Republican) — PRESENT
- Charles Henry Elston (Republican) — YEA
- Clarence J. Brown (Republican) — PRESENT
- Cliff Clevenger (Republican) — YEA
- Frances Payne Bolton (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Townsend Bow (Republican) — YEA
- George Harrison Bender (Republican) — YEA
- Henry Frazier Reams (Independent) — PRESENT
- J. Harry McGregor (Republican) — YEA
- Jackson Edward Betts (Republican) — YEA
- James Gould Polk (Democrat) — YEA
- John Martin Vorys (Republican) — YEA
- Michael Aloysius Feighan (Democrat) — YEA
- Michael Joseph Kirwan (Democrat) — YEA
- Paul Fornshell Schenck (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Crosser (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Thompson Secrest (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Albert Jenkins (Republican) — YEA
- Walter Ellsworth Brehm (Republican) — YEA
- Wayne Levere Hays (Democrat) — YEA
- William Emil Hess (Republican) — YEA
- William Hanes Ayres (Republican) — PRESENT
- William Moore McCulloch (Republican) — PRESENT
Oklahoma 6 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
Oregon 3 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Pennsylvania 22 yes, 0 no, 11 did not vote yes or no
- Alvin Ray Bush (Republican) — YEA
- Augustine Bernard Kelley (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Benjamin Franklin James (Republican) — YEA
- Carroll Dudley Kearns (Republican) — YEA
- Daniel John Flood (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Earl Chudoff (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Edward Lewis Sittler Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Francis Eugene Walter (Democrat) — YEA
- George Milton Rhodes (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Hardie Scott (Republican) — PRESENT
- Harmar Denny Denny Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Harry Patrick O'Neill (Democrat) — YEA
- Herman Peter Eberharter (Democrat) — YEA
- Hugh Doggett Scott Jr. (Republican) — PRESENT
- Ivor David Fenton (Republican) — YEA
- James Edward van Zandt (Republican) — YEA
- James Francis Lind (Democrat) — YEA
- James Grove Fulton (Republican) — YEA
- John Phillips Saylor (Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Leonard Carrigg (Republican) — YEA
- Karl Clarence King (Republican) — PRESENT
- Leon Harry Gavin (Republican) — YEA
- Louis Edward Graham (Republican) — YEA
- Paul Bartram Dague (Republican) — YEA
- Richard Murray Simpson (Republican) — YEA
- Robert James Corbett (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Kerns McConnell Jr. (Republican) — PRESENT
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Vera Daerr Buchanan (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Walter Mann Mumma (Republican) — YEA
- William Aloysius Barrett (Democrat) — PRESENT
- William Joseph Green Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- William Thomas Granahan (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 5 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
South Dakota 2 yes, 0 no
Tennessee 8 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Arnold Gore (Democrat) — YEA
- Brazilla Carroll Reece (Republican) — YEA
- Clifford Davis (Democrat) — YEA
- Howard Henry Baker (Republican) — PRESENT
- James Beriah Frazier Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- James Patton Sutton (Democrat) — PRESENT
- James Percy Priest (Democrat) — YEA
- Jere Cooper (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Landon Evins (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Jefferson Murray (Democrat) — YEA
Texas 18 yes, 0 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Thomas (Democrat) — YEA
- Clark Wallace Thompson (Democrat) — YEA
- Frank Neville Ikard (Democrat) — YEA
- George Herman Mahon (Democrat) — YEA
- Jesse Martin Combs (Democrat) — PRESENT
- John Emmett Lyle Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- John William Wright Patman (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Joseph Franklin Wilson (Democrat) — YEA
- Kenneth Mills Regan (Democrat) — YEA
- Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Lloyd Millard Bentsen Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Olin Earl Teague (Democrat) — YEA
- Omar Truman Burleson (Democrat) — YEA
- Ovie Clark Fisher (Democrat) — YEA
- Paul Joseph Kilday (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Augustus Pickett (Democrat) — YEA
- Walter Edward Rogers (Democrat) — YEA
- William Homer Thornberry (Democrat) — YEA
- William Robert Poage (Democrat) — YEA
- Wingate Hezekiah Lucas (Democrat) — YEA
Utah 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Reva Zilpha Beck Bosone (Democrat) — YEA
- Walter Keil Granger (Democrat) — PRESENT
Virginia 4 yes, 0 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Burr Powell Harrison (Democrat) — YEA
- Clarence Godber Burton (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward John Robeson Jr. (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Howard Worth Smith (Democrat) — YEA
- Julian Vaughan Gary (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Porter Hardy Jr. (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Thomas Bacon Fugate (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Bahnson Stanley (Democrat) — PRESENT
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt (Democrat) — PRESENT
Vermont 1 yes, 0 no
Washington 6 yes, 0 no
Wisconsin 7 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Alvin Edward O'Konski (Republican) — PRESENT
- Charles Joseph Kersten (Republican) — YEA
- Clement John Zablocki (Democrat) — YEA
- Gardner Robert Withrow (Republican) — YEA
- Glenn Robert Davis (Republican) — YEA
- John William Byrnes (Republican) — YEA
- Lawrence Henry Smith (Republican) — YEA
- Merlin Hull (Republican) — PRESENT
- Reid Fred Murray (Republican) — PRESENT
- William Kaiser van Pelt (Republican) — YEA
West Virginia 3 yes, 0 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
Wyoming 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- William Henry Harrison (Republican) — PRESENT
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