Report Outline
Measures Voted in the United States Senate
Record Votes in the Senate
Votes of Individual Senators on Leading Measures
Record Votes in the House of Representatives
Votes of House Members on Leading Measures
Special Focus
Measures Voted in the United States Senate
Frequent roll-calls during the first session of the Seventy-second Congress, now drawing to a close at Washington, have placed members of both houses on record on a wide variety of public questions. Issues which were made the subject of record votes in both houses included the foreign-debt moratorium, imposition of a sales tax, full payment of the bonus, various measures for the relief of farm distress and unemployment, reductions in civil and military appropriations, and the Democratic proposal of a policy looking to reciprocal reductions in tariffs.
Among the questions passed upon in the House, which have not yet reached a vote in the Senate, were independence for the Philippines, leasing of Muscle Shoals and the Goldsborough proposal to use the powers of government to restore commodity prices to pre-depression levels. The Senate went on record on a large number of questions which were not made the subject of roll-calls in the House.
Prohibition modification obtained direct votes in both houses for the first time since the passage of the National Prohibition Act. In the House the wets mustered 187 votes, or 43 per cent of the total membership, for a proposal to discharge the Judiciary Committee from consideration of a resolution to amend the Constitution substantially as recommended by the majority of the Wickersham commission. In the Senate 24 votes were mustered on one occasion and 26 votes on another for proposals to legalize and tax 2.75 per cent beer. The House vote was 103 short of the number required to submit a constitutional amendment to the states, with the full membership present and voting, and the highest Senate vote was 23 short of the number required to modify the Volstead act. |
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Congressional Records and Roll Calls |
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Jul. 30, 1956 |
Record of the 84th Congress (Second Session) |
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Aug. 11, 1955 |
Roll Calls in 84th Congress (First Session) |
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Aug. 04, 1955 |
Record of the 84th Congress (First Session) |
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Aug. 23, 1954 |
Roll Calls in 83rd Congress (Second Session) |
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Aug. 21, 1954 |
Record of the 83rd Congress (Second Session) |
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Aug. 05, 1953 |
Roll Calls in 83rd Congress (First Session) |
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Aug. 04, 1953 |
Record of 83rd Congress (First Session) |
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Jul. 14, 1952 |
Roll Calls in the 82nd Congress (Second Session) |
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Jul. 08, 1952 |
Record of the 82nd Congress (Second Session) |
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Oct. 23, 1951 |
Roll Calls in 82nd Congress (First Session) |
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Oct. 22, 1951 |
Record of the 82nd Congress (First Session) |
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Sep. 25, 1950 |
Record Votes in the 81st Congress (Second Session) |
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Sep. 25, 1950 |
Record of the 81st Congress (Second Session) |
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Oct. 21, 1949 |
Record Votes in the 81st Congress (First Session) |
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Oct. 20, 1949 |
Record of the 81st Congress (First Session) |
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Aug. 07, 1948 |
Record Votes in the 80th Congress (Second Session) |
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Aug. 07, 1948 |
Record of the 80th Congress (Second Session) |
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Jul. 30, 1947 |
Record Votes in 80th Congress (January-July, 1947) |
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Jul. 28, 1947 |
Record of the 80th Congress (January-July, 1947) |
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Aug. 03, 1946 |
Roll Calls in 79th Congress (Second Session) |
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Aug. 03, 1946 |
Record of the 79th Congress (Second Session) |
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Dec. 26, 1945 |
Record Votes in the 79th Congress (First Session) |
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Dec. 21, 1945 |
Record of the 79th Congress (First Session) |
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Dec. 20, 1944 |
Record Votes in the 78th Congress (Second Session) |
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Dec. 20, 1944 |
Record of the 78th Congress (Second Session) |
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Dec. 15, 1943 |
Record Votes in the 78th Congress (First Session) |
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Dec. 15, 1943 |
Record of the 78th Congress (First Session) |
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Dec. 23, 1942 |
Record Votes in the 77th Congress (Second Session) |
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Dec. 15, 1942 |
Record of the 77th Congress (Second Session) |
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Dec. 15, 1941 |
Record Votes in the 77Th Congress (First Session) |
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Dec. 15, 1941 |
Record of the 77th Congress |
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Dec. 23, 1940 |
Record Votes in the 76th Congress (Second and Third Sessions) |
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Jul. 01, 1940 |
Record of the 76th Congress |
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Aug. 07, 1939 |
Record Votes in the 76th Congress (First Session) |
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Aug. 07, 1939 |
Record of the 76th Congress (First Session) |
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Jun. 16, 1938 |
Record Votes in the 75th Congress (Second and Third Sessions) |
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Jun. 16, 1938 |
Record of the 75th Congress |
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Aug. 22, 1937 |
Record Votes in the 75th Congress |
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Aug. 22, 1937 |
Record of the 75th Congress |
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Jun. 22, 1936 |
Record Votes in the 74th Congress, Second Session |
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Jun. 22, 1936 |
Record of the 74th Congress, Second Session |
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Aug. 27, 1935 |
Record of the Seventy-Fourth Congress, First Session |
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Jun. 19, 1934 |
Record of the Seventy-Third Congress, Second Session |
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Jun. 16, 1933 |
Record of the Seventy-Third Congress First (Special) Session |
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Mar. 04, 1933 |
Record of the Seventy-Second Congress |
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Jul. 16, 1932 |
Record of the Seventy-Second Congress, First Session |
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Jun. 30, 1932 |
Record Votes in the Seventy-Second Congress |
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Mar. 04, 1931 |
Record of the Seventy-First Congress |
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Mar. 04, 1929 |
Legislative Record of the Seventieth Congress |
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May 29, 1928 |
Legislative Record of the Seventieth Congress (First Session) |
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Mar. 31, 1927 |
Legislative Record of the Sixty-Ninth Congress |
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Mar. 04, 1925 |
Legislative Record of the Sixty Eighth Congress |
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