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TO AGREE TO H.RES. 357, PROVIDING FOR AN ADDITIONAL CLERK FOR ALL HOUSE MEMBERS.
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What was on the floor
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How each state's members voted
In 7 states every member on the roll voted yes; in 8 every one voted no; 35 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: 1 yes, 0 no
- Maine: 2 yes, 0 no
- Vermont: 0 yes, 1 no
- New Hampshire: 0 yes, 2 no
- Washington: 5 yes, 2 no
- Idaho: 1 yes, 1 no
- Montana: 1 yes, 0 no
- North Dakota: 1 yes, 1 no
- Minnesota: 3 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Illinois: 12 yes, 10 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Wisconsin: 6 yes, 4 no
- Michigan: 10 yes, 5 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- New York: 25 yes, 10 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Rhode Island: 2 yes, 0 no
- Massachusetts: 5 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Oregon: 3 yes, 1 no
- Nevada: 1 yes, 0 no
- Wyoming: 0 yes, 1 no
- South Dakota: 1 yes, 1 no
- Iowa: 3 yes, 4 no
- Indiana: 3 yes, 8 no
- Ohio: 8 yes, 14 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Pennsylvania: 12 yes, 15 no
- New Jersey: 7 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Connecticut: 3 yes, 3 no
- California: 28 yes, 8 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Utah: 1 yes, 1 no
- Colorado: 2 yes, 2 no
- Nebraska: 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Missouri: 3 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Kentucky: 2 yes, 5 no
- West Virginia: 5 yes, 0 no
- Virginia: 1 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Maryland: 7 yes, 1 no
- Delaware: 0 yes, 1 no
- Arizona: 1 yes, 2 no
- New Mexico: 0 yes, 2 no
- Kansas: 0 yes, 5 no
- Arkansas: 1 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Tennessee: 5 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- North Carolina: 1 yes, 10 no
- South Carolina: 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- District of Columbia: no member on this roll call
- Oklahoma: 3 yes, 3 no
- Louisiana: 5 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Mississippi: 0 yes, 5 no
- Alabama: 5 yes, 3 no
- Georgia: 2 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Hawaii: 2 yes, 0 no
- Texas: 8 yes, 15 no
- Florida: 5 yes, 6 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.
Alaska 1 yes, 0 no
Alabama 5 yes, 3 no
- George William Andrews (Democrat) — NAY
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Tom Bevill (Democrat) — NAY
- Walter Flowers (Democrat) — YEA
- William Flynt Nichols (Democrat) — YEA
- William Jackson Edwards (Republican) — YEA
- William Louis Dickinson (Republican) — YEA
Arkansas 1 yes, 1 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- David Hampton Pryor (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Paul Hammerschmidt (Republican) — NAY
- Wilbur Daigh Mills (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Vollie Alexander Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
Arizona 1 yes, 2 no
California 28 yes, 8 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Alphonzo Bell (Republican) — YEA
- Augustus Freeman Hawkins (Democrat) — YEA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- Bernice Frederic Sisk (Democrat) — YEA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Edward Wiggins (Republican) — YEA
- Charles Herbert Wilson (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles McKevett Teague (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Samuel Gubser (Republican) — YEA
- Chester Earl Holifield (Democrat) — YEA
- Craig Hosmer (Republican) — NAY
- Delwin Morgan Clawson (Republican) — NAY
- Donald Holst Clausen (Republican) — YEA
- Edward R. Roybal (Democrat) — YEA
- George Edward Brown Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- George Paul Miller (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb (Republican) — NAY
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson (Democrat) — YEA
- H. Allen Smith (Republican) — NAY
- Harold Terry Johnson (Democrat) — YEA
- James Boyd Utt (Republican) — NAY
- James Charles Corman (Democrat) — YEA
- Jeffery Cohelan (Democrat) — YEA
- Jerome Russell Waldie (Democrat) — YEA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis (Republican) — YEA
- John Emerson Moss (Democrat) — YEA
- John Joseph McFall (Democrat) — YEA
- John Varick Tunney (Democrat) — YEA
- Lionel van Deerlin (Democrat) — YEA
- Paul Norton McCloskey Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Phillip Burton (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Thomas Hanna (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Bruce Mathias (Republican) — YEA
- Robert Carlton Wilson (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Louis Leggett (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Mankell Rees (Democrat) — YEA
- William Donlon Edwards (Democrat) — YEA
- William Somers Mailliard (Republican) — YEA
Colorado 2 yes, 2 no
Connecticut 3 yes, 3 no
Delaware 0 yes, 1 no
Florida 5 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Edward Bennett (Democrat) — NAY
- Claude Denson Pepper (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Dante Bruno Fascell (Democrat) — YEA
- Don Fuqua (Democrat) — YEA
- J. Herbert Burke (Republican) — NAY
- James Andrew Haley (Democrat) — NAY
- Louis Frey Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- Paul Grant Rogers (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes (Democrat) — YEA
- Sam Melville Gibbons (Democrat) — YEA
- William Cato Cramer (Republican) — NAY
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
Georgia 2 yes, 7 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn (Republican) — YEA
- George Elliott Hagan (Democrat) — NAY
- Jack Thomas Brinkley (Democrat) — NAY
- John James Flynt Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- John William Davis (Democrat) — YEA
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- Standish Fletcher Thompson (Republican) — NAY
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
Hawaii 2 yes, 0 no
Iowa 3 yes, 4 no
Idaho 1 yes, 1 no
Illinois 12 yes, 10 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Abner Joseph Mikva (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles Melvin Price (Democrat) — YEA
- Charlotte Thompson Reid (Republican) — NAY
- Daniel David Rostenkowski (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Daniel John Ronan (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Joseph Derwinski (Republican) — NAY
- Frank Annunzio (Democrat) — YEA
- George Edward Shipley (Democrat) — YEA
- Harold Reginald Collier (Republican) — NAY
- John Bayard Anderson (Republican) — YEA
- John Carl Kluczynski (Democrat) — YEA
- John Neal Erlenborn (Republican) — NAY
- Kenneth James Gray (Democrat) — YEA
- Leslie Cornelius Arends (Republican) — NAY
- Paul Findley (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Henry Michel (Republican) — NAY
- Robert McClory (Republican) — YEA
- Roman Conrad Pucinski (Democrat) — YEA
- Sidney Richard Yates (Democrat) — NAY
- Thomas Fisher Railsback (Republican) — NAY
- William Lee Springer (Republican) — NAY
- William Levi Dawson (Democrat) — YEA
- William Thomas Murphy (Democrat) — YEA
Indiana 3 yes, 8 no
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- David Worth Dennis (Republican) — NAY
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe (Republican) — NAY
- Edwin Ross Adair (Republican) — NAY
- John Brademas (Democrat) — YEA
- John Thomas Myers (Republican) — NAY
- Lee Herbert Hamilton (Democrat) — YEA
- Ray John Madden (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Lowell Roudebush (Republican) — NAY
- Roger Herschel Zion (Republican) — NAY
- William Gilmer Bray (Republican) — NAY
Kansas 0 yes, 5 no
Kentucky 2 yes, 5 no
Louisiana 5 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Edwin Washington Edwards (Democrat) — YEA
- Felix Edward Hébert (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Richard Rarick (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Otto Ernest Passman (Democrat) — YEA
- Patrick Thomson Caffery (Democrat) — NAY
- Speedy Oteria Long (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. (Democrat) — YEA
Massachusetts 5 yes, 3 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Edward Patrick Boland (Democrat) — NAY
- Frank Bradford Morse (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Harold Daniel Donohue (Democrat) — YEA
- Hastings Keith (Republican) — NAY
- James Anthony Burke (Democrat) — YEA
- Margaret M. Heckler (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Joseph Philbin (Democrat) — YEA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Philip O'Neill Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald (Democrat) — YEA
Maryland 7 yes, 1 no
- Clarence Dickinson Long (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz (Democrat) — YEA
- George Hyde Fallon (Democrat) — YEA
- Gilbert Gude (Republican) — YEA
- John Glenn Beall Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan (Republican) — YEA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel (Democrat) — YEA
Maine 2 yes, 0 no
Michigan 10 yes, 5 no, 4 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain (Republican) — YEA
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Elford Albin Cederberg (Republican) — NAY
- Garry Eldridge Brown (Republican) — YEA
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt (Republican) — YEA
- J. Edward Hutchinson (Republican) — NAY
- Jack H. McDonald (Republican) — YEA
- James Grant O'Hara (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- James Harvey (Republican) — YEA
- John Conyers, Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- John D. Dingell (Democrat) — YEA
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Martha Wright Griffiths (Democrat) — NAY
- Marvin Leonel Esch (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Philip Edward Ruppe (Republican) — NAY
- William David Ford (Democrat) — YEA
- William S. Broomfield (Republican) — NAY
Minnesota 3 yes, 4 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Albert Harold Quie (Republican) — NAY
- Ancher Nelsen (Republican) — NAY
- Clark Macgregor (Republican) — YEA
- Donald MacKay Fraser (Democrat) — YEA
- John Anton Blatnik (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Matthew Zwach (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Edward Karth (Democrat) — YEA
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen (Republican) — NAY
Missouri 3 yes, 6 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Bill D. Burlison (Democrat) — NAY
- Durward Gorham Hall (Republican) — NAY
- James Wadsworth Symington (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan (Democrat) — NAY
- Richard Howard Ichord II (Democrat) — NAY
- Richard Walker Bolling (Democrat) — YEA
- William Joseph Randall (Democrat) — NAY
- William Lacy Clay Sr. (Democrat) — YEA
- William Leonard Hungate (Democrat) — YEA
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
Mississippi 0 yes, 5 no
Montana 1 yes, 0 no
- Arnold Olsen (Democrat) — YEA
North Carolina 1 yes, 10 no
- Alton Asa Lennon (Democrat) — NAY
- Charles Raper Jonas (Republican) — NAY
- David Newton Henderson (Democrat) — NAY
- Earl Baker Ruth (Republican) — NAY
- James Thomas Broyhill (Republican) — NAY
- Lawrence H. Fountain (Democrat) — NAY
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer (Democrat) — YEA
- Nick Galifianakis (Democrat) — NAY
- Roy Arthur Taylor (Democrat) — NAY
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. (Democrat) — NAY
- Wilmer David Mizell (Republican) — NAY
North Dakota 1 yes, 1 no
Nebraska 0 yes, 2 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
New Hampshire 0 yes, 2 no
New Jersey 7 yes, 5 no, 3 did not vote yes or no
- Charles Samuel Joelson (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Charles William Sandman Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Dominick Vincent Daniels (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward James Patten (Democrat) — NAY
- Florence Price Dwyer (Republican) — NAY
- Frank Thompson Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Henry Helstoski (Democrat) — YEA
- James John Howard (Democrat) — YEA
- John Edmund Hunt (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph George Minish (Democrat) — YEA
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- William Beck Widnall (Republican) — NAY
- William Thomas Cahill (Republican) — NAY
New Mexico 0 yes, 2 no
Nevada 1 yes, 0 no
New York 25 yes, 10 no, 6 did not vote yes or no
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Alexander Pirnie (Republican) — NAY
- Allard Kenneth Lowenstein (Democrat) — YEA
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal (Democrat) — YEA
- Bertram L. Podell (Democrat) — YEA
- Carleton James King (Republican) — NAY
- Daniel Evan Button (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- Edward Irving Koch (Democrat) — YEA
- Emanuel Celler (Democrat) — YEA
- Frank James Brasco (Democrat) — YEA
- Frank Jefferson Horton (Republican) — YEA
- Hamilton Fish Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Henry P. Smith III (Republican) — NAY
- Howard Winfield Robison (Republican) — NAY
- Hugh Leo Carey (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Jacob H. Gilbert (Democrat) — YEA
- James Fred Hastings (Republican) — NOT VOTING
- James Haas Scheuer (Democrat) — YEA
- James Joseph Delaney (Democrat) — YEA
- James Michael Hanley (Democrat) — YEA
- James Russell Grover Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- John James Rooney (Democrat) — YEA
- John Michael Murphy (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- John Waldemar Wydler (Republican) — NAY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham (Democrat) — YEA
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo (Democrat) — YEA
- Leonard Farbstein (Democrat) — YEA
- Lester Lionel Wolff (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Mario Biaggi (Democrat) — YEA
- Martin Boswell McKneally (Republican) — NAY
- Ogden Rogers Reid (Republican) — YEA
- Otis Grey Pike (Democrat) — NAY
- Richard Dean McCarthy (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Cameron McEwen (Republican) — YEA
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton (Democrat) — NAY
- Seymour Halpern (Republican) — YEA
- Shirley Anita Chisholm (Democrat) — YEA
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski (Democrat) — YEA
- William Fitts Ryan (Democrat) — YEA
Ohio 8 yes, 14 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Adams Mosher (Republican) — NAY
- Charles Albert Vanik (Democrat) — YEA
- Charles William Whalen Jr. (Republican) — YEA
- Clarence E. Miller (Republican) — NAY
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- Delbert Leroy Latta (Republican) — NAY
- Donald Daniel Clancy (Republican) — NAY
- Donald Edgar Lukens (Republican) — YEA
- Frank Townsend Bow (Republican) — NAY
- Jackson Edward Betts (Republican) — NAY
- John Milan Ashbrook (Republican) — YEA
- John William Stanton (Republican) — NAY
- Louis Stokes (Democrat) — YEA
- Michael Aloysius Feighan (Democrat) — YEA
- Michael Joseph Kirwan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Robert Taft Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- Samuel Leeper Devine (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Wayne Levere Hays (Democrat) — YEA
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- William Hanes Ayres (Republican) — YEA
- William Howard Harsha (Republican) — NAY
- William Moore McCulloch (Republican) — NAY
Oklahoma 3 yes, 3 no
Oregon 3 yes, 1 no
Pennsylvania 12 yes, 15 no
- Albert Walter Johnson (Republican) — NAY
- Daniel John Flood (Democrat) — YEA
- Edward George Biester Jr. (Republican) — NAY
- Edwin Duing Eshleman (Republican) — NAY
- Frank Monroe Clark (Democrat) — YEA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney (Democrat) — YEA
- George Atlee Goodling (Republican) — NAY
- George Robert Watkins (Republican) — NAY
- Gus Yatron (Democrat) — NAY
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli (Republican) — NAY
- James Aloysius Byrne (Democrat) — YEA
- James Grove Fulton (Republican) — YEA
- John Herman Dent (Democrat) — YEA
- John Irving Whalley (Republican) — NAY
- John Phillips Saylor (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos (Democrat) — NAY
- Joseph Michael McDade (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito (Democrat) — NAY
- Joshua Eilberg (Democrat) — YEA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams (Republican) — NAY
- Robert James Corbett (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan (Democrat) — YEA
- William Aloysius Barrett (Democrat) — YEA
- William Joseph Green (Democrat) — YEA
- William Singer Moorhead (Democrat) — YEA
Rhode Island 2 yes, 0 no
South Carolina 2 yes, 2 no, 2 did not vote yes or no
- Albert William Watson (Republican) — NAY
- James Robert Mann (Democrat) — YEA
- John Lanneau McMillan (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Lucius Mendel Rivers (Democrat) — YEA
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn (Democrat) — NAY
South Dakota 1 yes, 1 no
Tennessee 5 yes, 3 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall (Republican) — NAY
- Ed Jones (Democrat) — YEA
- James Henry Quillen (Republican) — NAY
- John James Duncan (Republican) — NAY
- Joseph Landon Evins (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- Leonard Ray Blanton (Democrat) — YEA
- Richard Harmon Fulton (Democrat) — YEA
- William Emerson Brock III (Republican) — YEA
- William Robert Anderson (Democrat) — YEA
Texas 8 yes, 15 no
- Abraham Kazen Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- Earle Cabell (Democrat) — NAY
- Eligio de la Garza II (Democrat) — NAY
- George Herbert Walker Bush (Republican) — NAY
- George Herman Mahon (Democrat) — NAY
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- Henry B. González (Democrat) — YEA
- Herbert Ray Roberts (Democrat) — NAY
- Jack Bascom Brooks (Democrat) — YEA
- James Claude Wright Jr. (Democrat) — YEA
- James Jarrell Pickle (Democrat) — NAY
- James Mitchell Collins (Republican) — NAY
- John Andrew Young (Democrat) — YEA
- John Vernard Dowdy (Democrat) — NAY
- John William Wright Patman (Democrat) — YEA
- Olin Earl Teague (Democrat) — YEA
- Omar Truman Burleson (Democrat) — NAY
- Ovie Clark Fisher (Democrat) — NAY
- Richard Crawford White (Democrat) — NAY
- Robert Christian Eckhardt (Democrat) — YEA
- Robert Dale Price (Republican) — NAY
- Robert Randolph Casey (Democrat) — NAY
- William Robert Poage (Democrat) — NAY
Utah 1 yes, 1 no
Virginia 1 yes, 8 no, 1 did not vote yes or no
- David Edward Satterfield III (Democrat) — NOT VOTING
- George William Whitehurst (Republican) — NAY
- Joel Thomas Broyhill (Republican) — YEA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. (Democrat) — NAY
- Richard Harding Poff (Republican) — NAY
- Thomas Nelms Downing (Democrat) — NAY
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt (Democrat) — NAY
- Wilbur Clarence Daniel (Democrat) — NAY
- William Creed Wampler (Republican) — NAY
- William Lloyd Scott (Republican) — NAY
Vermont 0 yes, 1 no
Washington 5 yes, 2 no
Wisconsin 6 yes, 4 no
- Alvin Edward O'Konski (Republican) — YEA
- Clement John Zablocki (Democrat) — YEA
- David Ross Obey (Democrat) — YEA
- Glenn Robert Davis (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Carl Schadeberg (Republican) — NAY
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss (Democrat) — YEA
- John William Byrnes (Republican) — NAY
- Robert William Kastenmeier (Democrat) — YEA
- Vernon Wallace Thomson (Republican) — NAY
- William Albert Steiger (Republican) — YEA
West Virginia 5 yes, 0 no
Wyoming 0 yes, 1 no
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