Family and medical leave act of 1989

On May 10, 1990, the House voted 155–264 on “On Motion to Recommit with Instructions” (HR 770). Result: Failed. By party: Democrats 26–226, Republicans 131–39. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 65 members voted against their own party.

During the 101st Congress (1989–1990), George H. W. Bush was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Result: Failed
Yes: 155
No: 264
Did not vote: 21
Date: May 10, 1990

By party

Republicans131 yes · 39 no · 9 didn’t vote
Democrats26 yes · 226 no · 12 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Tom Bevill D-AL voted yes
Claude Harris Jr. D-AL voted yes
Thomas J. Campbell R-CA voted no
Christopher H. Shays R-CT voted no
John Rowland R-CT voted no
Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT voted no
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL voted no
Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA voted yes
Patricia Saiki R-HI voted no
David Ray Nagle D-IA voted yes
Richard Howard Stallings D-ID voted yes
Henry John Hyde R-IL voted no
Lynn Morley Martin R-IL 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
Constance A. Morella R-MD voted no
Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME voted no
Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI voted yes
Robert William Davis R-MI voted no
Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN voted yes
Michael (Mike) Parker D-MS voted yes
Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS voted yes
Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted yes
Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC voted yes
H. Martin Lancaster D-NC voted yes
Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC voted yes
James McClure Clarke D-NC voted yes
Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE voted no
Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted no
Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ voted no
Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted no
Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY voted no
Susan Molinari R-NY voted no
Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted no
Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted no
Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted no
Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY voted no
David O'Brien Martin R-NY voted no
James T. Walsh R-NY voted no
Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted no
Michael Dewine R-OH voted no
Ralph Straus Regula R-OH voted no
Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA voted no
Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted no
Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA voted no
William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA voted no
Ronald K. Machtley R-RI voted no
Claudine Schneider R-RI voted no
Arthur Ravenel Jr. R-SC voted no
Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC voted yes
Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr. (Robin) D-SC voted yes
Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN voted yes
James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN voted yes
John S. Tanner D-TN voted yes
Ralph Moody Hall D-TX voted yes
William Sarpalius D-TX voted yes
Lamar Seeligson Smith R-TX voted no
Howard Curtis Nielson R-UT voted no
James R. Olin D-VA voted yes
Peter P. Smith R-VT voted no
John Ripin Miller R-WA voted no
Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA voted no

How each representative voted: Yes

Donald Edwin Young R-AK
Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
William Louis Dickinson R-AL
Tom Bevill D-AL
Claude Harris Jr. D-AL
John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
John Jacob Rhodes III R-AZ
Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
Jon Llewellyn Kyl R-AZ
James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
Walter William (Wally) Herger 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
Charles Christopher Cox R-CA
William David Lowery R-CA
Dana Rohrabacher R-CA
Ronald C. Packard R-CA
George Hanks (Hank) Brown R-CO
Joel M. Hefley R-CO
Daniel Schaefer R-CO
James William Grant R-FL
Craig T. James R-FL
Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
Clifford Bundy Stearns R-FL
Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
Michael Bilirakis R-FL
Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland R-FL
Thomas F. Lewis R-FL
Porter J. Goss R-FL
Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
Thomas Joseph Tauke R-IA
David Ray Nagle D-IA
James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
Frederick Lawrence Grandy R-IA
Larry Edwin Craig R-ID
Richard Howard Stallings D-ID
John Edward Porter R-IL
Philip Miller Crane R-IL
Harris W. Fawell R-IL
John Dennis Hastert R-IL
Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
Robert Henry Michel R-IL
John Patrick Hiler R-IN
John Thomas Myers R-IN
Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
Jan Meyers R-KS
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
Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI
Paul B. Henry R-MI
Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
Bill Schuette R-MI
William S. Broomfield R-MI
Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN
John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
Arlan Ingehart Stangeland R-MN
John William (Jack) Buechner R-MO
Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
Melton D. (Mel) Hancock R-MO
Michael (Mike) Parker D-MS
Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS
Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC
H. Martin Lancaster D-NC
Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
Howard Coble R-NC
John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) R-NC
Cass Ballenger R-NC
James McClure Clarke D-NC
Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
Robert C. Smith R-NH
Charles Gywnne Douglas III R-NH
Dean Anderson Gallo R-NJ
James Andrew Courter R-NJ
Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
Steven Harvey Schiff R-NM
Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV
Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
L. William Paxon R-NY
Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH
Bob Mcewen R-OH
Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
Clarence E. Miller R-OH
John Richard Kasich R-OH
Chalmers Pangburn Wylie 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
Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
Robert Smith Walker R-PA
George William Gekas R-PA
William Franklin Goodling R-PA
Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr. (Robin) D-SC
James Henry Quillen R-TN
John J. Duncan Jr. R-TN
Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN
Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN
John S. Tanner D-TN
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
William Sarpalius D-TX
Larry Ed Combest R-TX
Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
Richard Keith Armey R-TX
James Vear Hansen R-UT
Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
James R. Olin D-VA
Daniel French Slaughter Jr. R-VA
Stanford E. Parris R-VA
Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
Rodney Dennis Chandler R-WA
Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI
Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
Toby A. Roth R-WI
Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
Craig Lyle Thomas R-WY

How each representative voted: No

John Glen Browder D-AL
Ben Erdreich D-AL
William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
Morris King Udall D-AZ
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
Thomas J. Campbell R-CA
Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
Gary Adrian Condit 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
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
John Rowland R-CT
Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
Thomas Richard Carper D-DE
Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
Clarence William (Bill) Nelson D-FL
Harry A. Johnston II D-FL
Lawrence Jack Smith D-FL
William Lehman D-FL
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL
Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
Robert Lindsay Thomas D-GA
Charles Floyd Hatcher D-GA
Richard Belmont Ray D-GA
Ben Jones D-GA
John R. Lewis D-GA
George (Buddy) Darden D-GA
James Roy Rowland Jr. D-GA
Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
Patricia Saiki R-HI
Daniel Kahikina Akaka D-HI
Neal Edward Smith D-IA
Charles Arthur Hayes D-IL
Gus Savage D-IL
Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
George Edward Sangmeister D-IL
William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
Henry John Hyde R-IL
Cardiss Collins D-IL
Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
Frank Annunzio D-IL
Lynn Morley Martin R-IL
Lane Allen Evans D-IL
Terry Lee Bruce D-IL
Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL
Jerry Francis Costello D-IL
Glenn Poshard D-IL
Peter Visclosky D-IN
Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
Jill Lynette Long D-IN
James Prather Jontz D-IN
Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN
Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
James Charles Slattery D-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
Richard Edmund Neal 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
Royden Patrick Dyson D-MD
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
John Conyers Jr. D-MI
Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
Robert William Davis 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
Sander Martin Levin D-MI
Bruce Frank Vento D-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
Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
Alan Dupree Wheat D-MO
Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
Alphonso Michael (Mike) Espy D-MS
Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
John Patrick Williams D-MT
David Eugene Price D-NC
Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND
Peter J. Hoagland D-NE
Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
William John Hughes D-NJ
Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ
Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
Bernard James Dwyer D-NJ
Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
Robert A. Roe D-NJ
Robert Guy Torricelli D-NJ
Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
Frank Joseph Guarini Jr. D-NJ
Bill Richardson D-NM
James Hubert Bilbray D-NV
George Joseph Hochbrueckner D-NY
Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
Robert Jan Mrazek D-NY
Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY
Floyd Harold Flake 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
Susan Molinari R-NY
Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY
Charles B. Rangel D-NY
Theodore S. Weiss D-NY
José E. Serrano D-NY
Eliot Lance Engel D-NY
Nita M. Lowey D-NY
Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
Michael Robert Mcnulty D-NY
Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
David O'Brien Martin R-NY
James T. Walsh 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
Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
Michael Dewine R-OH
Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
Donald James Pease D-OH
Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
Ralph Straus Regula R-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
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
John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
William Joseph Coyne D-PA
Douglas Walgren D-PA
Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
Austin John Murphy D-PA
William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
Ronald K. Machtley R-RI
Claudine Schneider R-RI
Arthur Ravenel Jr. R-SC
Elizabeth J. Patterson D-SC
John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
Timothy Peter (Tim) Johnson D-SD
Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
Jim Chapman D-TX
Charles Wilson D-TX
John Wiley Bryant D-TX
Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
James Marvin Leath D-TX
Preston M. (Pete) Geren D-TX
Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
Craig Anthony Washington D-TX
Henry B. González D-TX
Lamar Seeligson Smith R-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
Howard Curtis Nielson R-UT
Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
Norman Sisisky D-VA
Lewis Franklin Payne Jr. D-VA
Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
Peter P. Smith R-VT
John Ripin Miller R-WA
Allan Byron Swift D-WA
Jolene Unsoeld D-WA
Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA
Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
James A. Mcdermott D-WA
Leslie Aspin D-WI
Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
Jim Moody D-WI
David Ross Obey D-WI
Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
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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