To amend HR 4264, fiscal 1989 defense authorization, to authorize the defense secretary to report a plan for the deployment of protection systems against accide

On May 11, 1988, the House voted 167–249 (HR 4264). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 28–216, Republicans 140–34. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 62 members voted against their own party.

During the 100th Congress (1987–1988), Ronald Reagan was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Yes: 167
No: 249
Did not vote: 23
Date: May 11, 1988

By party

Republicans140 yes · 34 no · 5 didn’t vote
Democrats28 yes · 216 no · 18 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
Tom Bevill D-AL voted yes
Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL voted yes
Ben Erdreich D-AL voted yes
Claude Harris Jr. D-AL voted yes
Tommy Franklin Robinson D-AR voted yes
Morris King Udall D-AZ voted yes
Christopher H. Shays R-CT voted no
Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL voted yes
James William Grant D-FL voted yes
Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL voted yes
Patricia Saiki R-HI voted no
James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted no
Frederick Lawrence Grandy R-IA voted no
Richard Howard Stallings D-ID voted yes
John Edward Porter R-IL voted no
Harris W. Fawell R-IL voted no
Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS voted no
Jan Meyers R-KS voted no
Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted yes
Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA voted yes
Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA voted yes
James Allison Hayes D-LA voted yes
Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
Royden Patrick Dyson D-MD voted yes
Constance A. Morella R-MD voted no
Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME voted no
Carl Duane Pursell R-MI voted no
Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI voted no
Paul B. Henry R-MI voted no
Bill Schuette R-MI voted no
William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted no
Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted yes
Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC voted yes
Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ voted no
James Hubert Bilbray D-NV voted yes
Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted no
Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted no
Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted yes
Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY voted no
Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted no
Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY voted no
Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH voted no
Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA voted no
Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted no
John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA voted yes
Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA voted no
William Franklin Goodling R-PA voted no
Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA voted no
William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA voted no
Claudine Schneider R-RI voted no
Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr. (Robin) D-SC voted yes
Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN voted yes
Charles Wilson D-TX voted yes
Ralph Moody Hall D-TX voted yes
Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX voted yes
James Merrill Jeffords R-VT voted no
John Ripin Miller R-WA voted no
Rodney Dennis Chandler R-WA voted no
Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI voted no
Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

Donald Edwin Young R-AK
Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
William Louis Dickinson R-AL
William Flynt Nichols D-AL
Tom Bevill D-AL
Ronnie Gene Flippo D-AL
Ben Erdreich D-AL
Claude Harris Jr. D-AL
Tommy Franklin Robinson D-AR
John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
John Jacob Rhodes III R-AZ
Morris King Udall D-AZ
Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
Jon Llewellyn Kyl R-AZ
James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA
Ernest Leslie Konnyu R-CA
Norman David Shumway R-CA
Charles Pashayan Jr. R-CA
Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
William Marshall Thomas R-CA
Elton W. Gallegly R-CA
Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
David Timothy Dreier R-CA
Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
Alfred A. Mccandless R-CA
Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
William Edwin Dannemeyer R-CA
Robert Edward Badham R-CA
William David Lowery R-CA
Daniel Edward Lungren R-CA
Ronald C. Packard R-CA
Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO
Joel M. Hefley R-CO
Daniel Schaefer R-CO
John Rowland R-CT
Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
James William Grant D-FL
Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
Michael Bilirakis R-FL
Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland R-FL
Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL
Thomas F. Lewis R-FL
Connie Mack III R-FL
Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
Patrick Lynn Swindall R-GA
Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA
James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
Richard Howard Stallings D-ID
Jack Davis R-IL
Henry John Hyde R-IL
Philip Miller Crane R-IL
John Dennis Hastert R-IL
Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
Lynn Morley Martin R-IL
Robert Henry Michel R-IL
John Patrick Hiler R-IN
Daniel Ray Coats R-IN
Danny Lee Burton R-IN
John Thomas Myers R-IN
Robert Russell Whittaker R-KS
Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
James Paul David Bunning R-KY
Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
James O. Mccrery III R-LA
Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
James Allison Hayes D-LA
Clyde Cecil Holloway R-LA
Royden Patrick Dyson D-MD
Helen Delich Bentley R-MD
Robert William Davis R-MI
William S. Broomfield R-MI
John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
John William (Jack) Buechner R-MO
Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
Gene Taylor R-MO
Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
Chester Trent Lott R-MS
Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC
Howard Coble R-NC
John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) R-NC
Cass Ballenger R-NC
Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
Robert C. Smith R-NH
Judd Alan Gregg R-NH
Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
Dean Anderson Gallo R-NJ
James Andrew Courter R-NJ
Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
James Hubert Bilbray D-NV
Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV
Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY
Guy Victor Molinari R-NY
Joseph J. Dioguardi R-NY
Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
David O'Brien Martin R-NY
George Cornelius Wortley R-NY
Jack French Kemp R-NY
Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
Bob Mcewen R-OH
Michael Dewine R-OH
Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
Clarence E. Miller R-OH
John Richard Kasich R-OH
Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
James Mountain Inhofe R-OK
Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
Dennis Alan (Denny) Smith R-OR
Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
Robert Smith Walker R-PA
George William Gekas R-PA
Arthur Ravenel Jr. R-SC
Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr. (Robin) D-SC
James Henry Quillen R-TN
Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN
Charles Wilson D-TX
Harry Stephen (Steve) Bartlett R-TX
Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
Joe Linus Barton R-TX
William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX
Eldon Beau Boulter R-TX
David McCann (Mac) Sweeney R-TX
Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
Larry Ed Combest R-TX
Lamar Seeligson Smith R-TX
Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
Richard Keith Armey R-TX
James Vear Hansen R-UT
Howard Curtis Nielson R-UT
Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
Daniel French Slaughter Jr. R-VA
Stanford E. Parris R-VA
Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA
Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
Toby A. Roth R-WI
Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
Richard Bruce Cheney R-WY

How each representative voted: No

William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
Douglas Harry Bosco D-CA
Robert T. Matsui D-CA
Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA
Nancy Pelosi D-CA
Barbara Boxer D-CA
George Miller D-CA
Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
Tony Coelho D-CA
Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
Richard Henry Lehman D-CA
Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
Edward R. Roybal D-CA
Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
Meldon Edises Levine D-CA
Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA
Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
Esteban Edward Torres D-CA
George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
Jim Bates D-CA
Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
David Evans Skaggs D-CO
Ben Nighthorse Campbell D-CO
Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
Bruce Andrew Morrison D-CT
Christopher H. Shays R-CT
Thomas Richard Carper D-DE
Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
Kenneth Hood Mackay Jr. (Buddy) D-FL
Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
Lawrence Jack Smith D-FL
William Lehman D-FL
Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
Robert Lindsay Thomas D-GA
Charles Floyd Hatcher D-GA
Richard Belmont Ray D-GA
John R. Lewis D-GA
George (Buddy) Darden D-GA
James Roy Rowland Jr. D-GA
Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
Patricia Saiki R-HI
Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
David Ray Nagle D-IA
Neal Edward Smith D-IA
Frederick Lawrence Grandy R-IA
Charles Arthur Hayes D-IL
Gus Savage D-IL
Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
Cardiss Collins D-IL
Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
John Edward Porter R-IL
Frank Annunzio D-IL
Harris W. Fawell R-IL
Lane Allen Evans D-IL
Terry Lee Bruce D-IL
Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL
Kenneth James Gray D-IL
Peter Visclosky D-IN
Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
James Prather Jontz D-IN
Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN
Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
James Charles Slattery D-KS
Jan Meyers R-KS
Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
William Huston Natcher D-KY
Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
Carl Christopher Perkins D-KY
Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
Barney Frank D-MA
Chester Greenough Atkins D-MA
Nicholas James Mavroules D-MA
Edward John Markey D-MA
Joseph Patrick Kennedy II D-MA
John Joseph Moakley D-MA
Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA
Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD
Charles Thomas Mcmillen D-MD
Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD
Kweisi Mfume D-MD
Constance A. Morella R-MD
Joseph Edward Brennan D-ME
Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI
Paul B. Henry R-MI
Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
Bill Schuette R-MI
David Edward Bonior D-MI
George William Crockett Jr. D-MI
Dennis Mark Hertel D-MI
William David Ford D-MI
John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN
William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
Gerald Edward Sikorski D-MN
James Louis Oberstar D-MN
William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
Alan Dupree Wheat D-MO
Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
Alphonso Michael (Mike) Espy D-MS
Charles Wayne Dowdy D-MS
John Patrick Williams D-MT
Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
H. Martin Lancaster D-NC
David Eugene Price D-NC
Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
James McClure Clarke D-NC
Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND
William John Hughes D-NJ
Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
Bernard James Dwyer D-NJ
Robert A. Roe D-NJ
Robert Guy Torricelli D-NJ
Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
Frank Joseph Guarini Jr. D-NJ
Bill Richardson D-NM
George Joseph Hochbrueckner D-NY
Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
Robert Jan Mrazek D-NY
Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
James Haas Scheuer D-NY
Thomas J. Manton D-NY
Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
Edolphus Towns D-NY
Major Robert Odell Owens D-NY
Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
Charles B. Rangel D-NY
Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
Robert Garcia D-NY
Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
Henry James Nowak D-NY
Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
Donald James Pease D-OH
Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
Edward Farrell Feighan D-OH
Mary Rose Oakar D-OH
Louis Stokes D-OH
Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
Wesley Wade Watkins D-OK
David Keith Mccurdy D-OK
Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
Les Aucoin D-OR
Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
William Herbert Gray III D-PA
Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
Joseph Paul Kolter D-PA
Gus Yatron D-PA
Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA
Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
William Joseph Coyne D-PA
Douglas Walgren D-PA
William Franklin Goodling R-PA
Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
Austin John Murphy D-PA
William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
Claudine Schneider R-RI
Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
Elizabeth J. Patterson D-SC
John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
Timothy Peter (Tim) Johnson D-SD
James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN
Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
Ed Jones D-TN
Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
Jim Chapman D-TX
John Wiley Bryant D-TX
Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
James Marvin Leath D-TX
Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
George Thomas (Mickey) Leland D-TX
Henry B. González D-TX
Albert G. Bustamante D-TX
Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
Michael Allen Andrews D-TX
Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
Douglas Wayne Owens D-UT
Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
Norman Sisisky D-VA
James R. Olin D-VA
Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
John Ripin Miller R-WA
Allan Byron Swift D-WA
Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
Michael Edward Lowry D-WA
Rodney Dennis Chandler R-WA
Leslie Aspin D-WI
Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI
Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
Jim Moody D-WI
David Ross Obey D-WI
Harley Orrin Staggers Jr. D-WV
Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV
Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV

Did not vote

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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