House roll call 459 · 102nd Congress · Feb 27, 1992
Haitian refugee protection act of 1991
On Feb 27, 1992, the House voted 217–165 on “On Passage” (HR 3844). Result: Passed. By party: Democrats 198–34, Republicans 18–131, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 52 members voted against their own party.
During the 102nd Congress (1991–1992), George H. W. Bush was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Result
- Passed
- Yes
- 217
- No
- 165
- Did not vote
- 59
- Date
- Feb 27, 1992
By party
- Republicans18 yes · 131 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Democrats198 yes · 34 no · 38 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- John Glen Browder D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL voted no
- Ben Erdreich D-AL voted no
- Claude Harris Jr. D-AL voted no
- Frank D. Riggs R-CA voted yes
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA voted no
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA voted yes
- Dana Rohrabacher R-CA voted yes
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA voted yes
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell D-CO voted no
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT voted yes
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL voted no
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL voted yes
- Robert Lindsay Thomas D-GA voted no
- George (Buddy) Darden D-GA voted no
- George Edward Sangmeister D-IL voted no
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL voted no
- Henry John Hyde R-IL voted yes
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL voted yes
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA voted no
- Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD voted no
- Constance A. Morella R-MD voted yes
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI voted no
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN voted yes
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted no
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- Michael (Mike) Parker D-MS voted no
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS voted no
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC voted no
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted yes
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted yes
- Sedgwick William (Bill) Green R-NY voted yes
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted yes
- Donald James Pease D-OH voted no
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH voted no
- William K. Brewster D-OK voted no
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK voted no
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA voted no
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA voted no
- Ronald K. Machtley R-RI voted yes
- Elizabeth J. Patterson D-SC voted no
- John S. Tanner D-TN voted no
- Jim Chapman D-TX voted no
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX voted no
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX voted no
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA voted no
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA voted no
- John Ripin Miller R-WA voted yes
- Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- Ed Pastor D-AZ
- Frank D. Riggs R-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
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA
- Richard Henry Lehman D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Maxine Waters D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Dana Rohrabacher R-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- David Evans Skaggs D-CO
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Rosa L. Delauro D-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Thomas Richard Carper D-DE
- Douglas Brian (Pete) Peterson D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- James Bacchus D-FL
- Lawrence Jack Smith D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ben Jones D-GA
- John R. Lewis D-GA
- Edgar Lanier (Ed) Jenkins D-GA
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- David Ray Nagle D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Larry Larocco D-ID
- Charles Arthur Hayes D-IL
- Gus Savage D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- John W. Cox Jr. D-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
- Timothy John Roemer 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
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Carl Christopher Perkins D-KY
- William Jennings Jefferson D-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- James Allison Hayes D-LA
- John Walter Olver D-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
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD
- Charles Thomas Mcmillen D-MD
- Kweisi Mfume D-MD
- Constance A. Morella R-MD
- Thomas Hiram Andrews D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Barbara-Rose Collins D-MI
- Dennis Mark Hertel D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
- 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
- Joan Kelly Horn D-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Alan Dupree Wheat D-MO
- Alphonso Michael (Mike) Espy D-MS
- 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
- Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND
- Peter J. Hoagland D-NE
- Richard Swett D-NH
- Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith 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
- James Hubert Bilbray D-NV
- George Joseph Hochbrueckner D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Robert Jan Mrazek D-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
- 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
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Charles J. Luken D-OH
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Dennis Edward Eckart D-OH
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
- James A. Traficant Jr. 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
- Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
- Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
- Michael J. Kopetski D-OR
- Lucien Edward Blackwell D-PA
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Ronald K. Machtley R-RI
- John F. (Jack) Reed D-RI
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. 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
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- John Wiley Bryant D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX
- Craig Anthony Washington D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Albert G. Bustamante D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Michael Allen Andrews D-TX
- Douglas Wayne Owens D-UT
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- Lewis Franklin Payne Jr. D-VA
- James R. Olin D-VA
- James P. Moran D-VA
- Bernard Sanders I-VT
- John Ripin Miller R-WA
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA
- Jolene Unsoeld D-WA
- Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA
- James A. Mcdermott D-WA
- 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
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- John Glen Browder D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL
- Ben Erdreich D-AL
- Claude Harris Jr. D-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- Jon Llewellyn Kyl R-AZ
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- Thomas J. Campbell R-CA
- John Taylor Doolittle R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Elton W. Gallegly R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- Alfred A. Mccandless R-CA
- Charles Christopher Cox R-CA
- William David Lowery R-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Randall (Duke) Cunningham R-CA
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell D-CO
- A. Wayne Allard R-CO
- Joel M. Hefley R-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT
- Gary A. Franks R-CT
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-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
- Robert Lindsay Thomas D-GA
- George (Buddy) Darden D-GA
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- James Allen Nussle R-IA
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
- Frederick Lawrence Grandy R-IA
- George Edward Sangmeister D-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Dennis Hastert R-IL
- Thomas W. Ewing R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- Jan Meyers R-KS
- Richard Nichols R-KS
- 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
- Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
- Clyde Cecil Holloway R-LA
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD
- Helen Delich Bentley R-MD
- Beverly Barton Butcher Byron D-MD
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- 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
- David Lee Camp R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- James (Jim) Ramstad R-MN
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Melton D. (Mel) Hancock R-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Michael (Mike) Parker D-MS
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC
- Howard Coble R-NC
- John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) R-NC
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- William E. Barrett R-NE
- William H. Zeliff Jr. R-NH
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Richard Zimmer 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
- Raymond Joseph Mcgrath R-NY
- Susan Molinari R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- David O'Brien Martin R-NY
- James T. Walsh R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton 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
- David Lee Hobson R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Donald James Pease D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- James Mountain Inhofe R-OK
- William K. Brewster D-OK
- Marvin Henry (Mickey) Edwards R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Donald Lawrence Ritter R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- Richard John (Rick) Santorum R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Arthur Ravenel Jr. R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Elizabeth J. Patterson D-SC
- John J. Duncan Jr. R-TN
- Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN
- John S. Tanner D-TN
- Jim Chapman D-TX
- Sam Johnson R-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. 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
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- George Allen R-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Scott L. Klug R-WI
- 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
Did not vote
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes III R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Meldon Edises Levine D-CA
- Mervyn Malcolm Dymally D-CA
- Esteban Edward Torres D-CA
- William Edwin Dannemeyer R-CA
- Harry A. Johnston II D-FL
- Charles Floyd Hatcher D-GA
- Richard Belmont Ray D-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- James Roy Rowland Jr. D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Richard Howard Stallings D-ID
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Robert William Davis R-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Ronald Charles Marlenee R-MT
- Cass Ballenger R-NC
- Charles Hart Taylor R-NC
- Dean Anderson Gallo R-NJ
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- John Andrew Boehner R-OH
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- William Herbert Gray III D-PA
- Joseph Paul Kolter D-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr. (Robin) D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Harry Stephen (Steve) Bartlett R-TX
- Preston M. (Pete) Geren D-TX
- William Sarpalius D-TX
- Gregory H. Laughlin D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- William Orton D-UT
- Daniel French Slaughter Jr. R-VA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Rodney Dennis Chandler R-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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