Where can the full roll‑call list (each Representative’s yea/nay and party) for H.R. 7152 be downloaded?
Executive summary
The complete roll‑call for H.R. 7152—the Civil Rights Act votes in the 88th Congress—can be downloaded from several authoritative repositories: the House History/Archives XML roll‑call file that contains the Clerk’s tally, the Clerk of the House “Roll Call Votes” pages, the Library of Congress Congress.gov roll‑call archive, and mirrored third‑party databases such as GovTrack which have digitized historical vote records (House History; Clerk; Congress.gov; GovTrack) [1][2][3][4]. These sources provide the full yea/nay/absent entries and party affiliation as recorded at the time; where available the House/House History copy is the original Clerk’s tally sheet and often the most direct “download” format [1].
1. The official primary: House History’s Clerk tally (the XML roll‑call sheet)
The House History / House Archives site preserves primary documents for landmark measures and specifically hosts the Clerk’s roll‑call sheet for H.R. 7152 in a downloadable XML tile—identified in the archive as the 7152 tally—showing how Members voted in the House on February 10, 1964; that file is the contemporary Clerk’s roll‑call record and can be retrieved from the House’s History/Archives exhibition pages [1]. Researchers seeking the verbatim Clerk sheet and the historical layout used at the time should start with the History/Archives exhibition entry that references the 7152 tally XML [1].
2. The Clerk of the House roll‑call database: machine‑readable and authoritative
The Office of the Clerk maintains an official Roll Call Votes portal where House votes are compiled and published; the Clerk’s site allows searching and downloading of roll‑call results by bill and roll number and is the operational source for House floor vote records [2][5]. Users can access the Clerk’s vote archives (by Congress and session), which reflect the official entries compiled through the electronic voting machine and the tally clerks under the Clerk’s direction, making it an authoritative download point for H.R. 7152’s recorded yea/nay and party identifiers [6][2].
3. Library of Congress (Congress.gov): a convenient canonical web interface
Congress.gov’s Roll Call Votes section republishes House and Senate roll‑call results and provides a searchable, session‑organized interface for historical votes; it aggregates official House/Senate data and is intended for public retrieval of each Representative’s recorded vote and party label for measures such as H.R. 7152 [3][7]. For those who prefer a structured web view or citation link rather than raw Clerk XML, Congress.gov is a canonical, citable alternative to the Clerk’s direct pages [3].
4. Mirrored academic and civic sources: GovTrack, VoteView, and the National Archives
Third‑party archives and academic projects have digitized the historical paper records: GovTrack displays the H.R. 7152 House passage roll call and cites VoteView as its digitization source, offering another easy download or copy option for vote lists [4][8]. The National Archives highlights the same House passage totals in its Congressional Treasures pages and links to related primary materials that corroborate the official House tallies [9]. These mirrors are valuable for searching, cross‑checking, and programmatic access when users want alternative formats or contextual metadata [4][9].
5. How to choose and what to expect from each source
For the single most “official” machine file, the House History/Archives Clerk tally XML is the direct artifact of the Clerk’s records [1]; for regularly maintained, searchable downloads and contemporary metadata (Congress/session structure, machine formats), use the Clerk’s Votes portal and Congress.gov [2][3]. GovTrack and VoteView provide convenient secondary copies and explanatory pages that cite the same primary data, useful for cross‑validation or easier CSV/HTML scraping [4]. If a researcher needs confirmation of procedures (how House tallies are compiled) the Clerk and Congress.gov notes explain that votes are compiled by the electronic voting machine and tallied under the Clerk’s direction [6][3].
6. Limits of this briefing
Reporting here is limited to published archival and government repositories found in the search results: the House History XML tally, Clerk of the House vote pages, Congress.gov, GovTrack, and National Archives references; no direct download link beyond the archival identifiers is reproduced here, and any request for a downloadable file should start at those named pages where the Clerk’s XML or downloadable artifacts are hosted [1][2][3][4][9].