The exact motion or nomination the chamber put to a vote.
Recorded vote
TO ORDER ENGROSSMENT AND THIRD READING OF H.R. 171, A BILL AUTHORIZING THE ISSUING OF DEBENTURES IN CERTAIN CASES. SPEAKER VOTING NAY.
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 members voted
In 3 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 1 every one voted no; 12 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, 3 no
- New Hampshire: 3 yes, 1 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: 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: 12 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Massachusetts: 8 yes, 4 no, 5 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: 1 yes, 0 no
- Pennsylvania: 4 yes, 12 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- New Jersey: 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or 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: 2 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- West Virginia: no member on this roll call
- Virginia: 7 yes, 10 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 3 yes, 2 no, 4 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, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 2 yes, 6 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- South Carolina: 1 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or 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: 2 yes, 2 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
- Benjamin Tallmadge (Federalist) — YEA
- John Davenport (Federalist) — YEA
- Jonathan Ogden Moseley (Federalist) — YEA
- Lewis Burr Sturges (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Samuel Whittlesey Dana (Federalist) — YEA
- Theodore Dwight (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Timothy Pitkin (Federalist) — YEA
Delaware 0 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- James Madison Broom (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Georgia 2 yes, 2 no
Kentucky 2 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Massachusetts 8 yes, 4 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Barnabas Bidwell (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Ebenezer Seaver (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Isaiah Lewis Green (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob Crowninshield (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Jeremiah Nelson (Federalist) — YEA
- John Chandler (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Barker (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Joseph Bradley Varnum (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Josiah Quincy (Federalist) — YEA
- Orchard Cook (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Peleg Wadsworth (Federalist) — YEA
- Phanuel Bishop (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Cutts (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Taggart (Federalist) — YEA
- Seth Hastings (Federalist) — YEA
- William Ely (Federalist) — NAY
- William Stedman (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
Maryland 3 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Goldsborough (Federalist) — NAY
- Edward Lloyd (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Archer (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Campbell (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Leonard Covington (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nicholas Ruxton Moore (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Patrick Magruder (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Roger Nelson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William McCreery (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
North Carolina 2 yes, 6 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Duncan McFarlan (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Evan Shelby Alexander (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Holland (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Winston (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Marmaduke Williams (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Nathaniel Macon (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Stanford (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Blount (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Kenan (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Wynns (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Blackledge (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Willis Alston (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
New Hampshire 3 yes, 1 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Caleb Ellis (Federalist) — NAY
- David Hough (Federalist) — YEA
- Samuel Tenney (Federalist) — YEA
- Silas Betton (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Weston Thompson (Federalist) — YEA
New Jersey 1 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
New York 12 yes, 2 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Daniel Crommelin Verplanck (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- David Thomas (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Eliphalet Wickes (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- George Clinton (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Gurdon Saltonstall Mumford (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Henry Walter Livingston (Federalist) — YEA
- John Blake Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Russell (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Josiah Masters (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Killian Killian van Rensselaer (Federalist) — NOT VOTING
- Martin Gerretsen Schuneman (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Nathan Williams (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Peter Sailly (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Philip van Cortlandt (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Silas Halsey (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Sammons (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Uri Tracy (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Ohio 1 yes, 0 no
Pennsylvania 4 yes, 12 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Andrew Gregg (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- David Bard (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Frederick Conrad (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Isaac Anderson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Jacob Richards (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Kelly (Federalist) — NAY
- John Hamilton (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Porter (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Pugh (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Rea (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Smilie (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Whitehill (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Clay (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Robert Brown (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Robert Whitehill (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Smith (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Findley (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
Rhode Island 1 yes, 0 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
South Carolina 1 yes, 2 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- David Rogerson Williams (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Elias Earle (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- O'Brien Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Richard Winn (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Marion (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Moore (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- William Butler (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
Tennessee 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
Virginia 7 yes, 10 no, 5 did not vote yes or no
- Abram Trigg (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Alexander Wilson (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Burwell Bassett (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- David Holmes (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Edwin Gray (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Mercer Garnett (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Claiborne (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Clopton (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Dawson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John George Jackson (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- John Morrow (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- John Smith (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- John Wayles Eppes (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Lewis Jr. (Federalist) — YEA
- Matthew Clay (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Peterson Goodwyn (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
- Philip Rootes Thompson (Democrat-Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Thomas Mann Randolph (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Thomas Newton Jr. (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- Walter Jones (Democrat-Republican) — YEA
- William Armisted Burwell (Democrat-Republican) — NAY
Vermont 1 yes, 3 no
Every vote, by name — 141 members
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