House roll call 788 · 102nd Congress · Aug 6, 1992
Family preservation act of 1992
On Aug 6, 1992, the House voted 256–163 on “On Passage” (HR 3603). Result: Passed. By party: Democrats 236–19, Republicans 19–144, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 38 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
- 256
- No
- 163
- Did not vote
- 22
- Date
- Aug 6, 1992
By party
- Republicans19 yes · 144 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Democrats236 yes · 19 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA voted no
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT voted yes
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL voted no
- Michael Bilirakis R-FL voted yes
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL voted yes
- Richard Belmont Ray D-GA voted no
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted yes
- Jill Lynette Long D-IN voted no
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY voted yes
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA voted no
- Helen Delich Bentley R-MD voted yes
- Constance A. Morella R-MD voted yes
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS voted no
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC voted no
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE voted yes
- Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ voted no
- Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Margaret Scafati Roukema 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
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted yes
- David Lee Hobson R-OH voted yes
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH voted no
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH voted yes
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK voted no
- Gus Yatron D-PA voted no
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted yes
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA voted no
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA voted no
- Elizabeth J. Patterson D-SC voted no
- Preston M. (Pete) Geren D-TX voted no
- William Orton D-UT voted no
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA voted no
- Sidney Wallace Morrison R-WA voted yes
How each representative voted: Yes
- 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
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Ed Pastor D-AZ
- 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
- 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
- Maxine Waters 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
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- David Evans Skaggs D-CO
- Ben Nighthorse Campbell D-CO
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Rosa L. Delauro D-CT
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT
- Thomas Richard Carper D-DE
- Douglas Brian (Pete) Peterson D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Michael Bilirakis R-FL
- James Bacchus 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
- 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
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- David Ray Nagle D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Larry Larocco D-ID
- Richard Howard Stallings D-ID
- Charles Arthur Hayes D-IL
- Gus Savage D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- George Edward Sangmeister D-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-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
- 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
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Carl Christopher Perkins D-KY
- William Jennings Jefferson D-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin 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
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Brian Joseph Donnelly D-MA
- Helen Delich Bentley R-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
- Thomas Hiram Andrews D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Howard Eliot Wolpe III D-MI
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee 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
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- Gerald Edward Sikorski D-MN
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Joan Kelly Horn 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
- Michael (Mike) Parker 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
- Byron Leslie Dorgan D-ND
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Peter J. Hoagland D-NE
- Richard Swett D-NH
- William John Hughes D-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
- 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
- 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
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- David Lee Hobson R-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
- William K. Brewster D-OK
- David Keith Mccurdy D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
- Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
- Michael J. Kopetski D-OR
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- Lucien Edward Blackwell D-PA
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- Joseph Paul Kolter D-PA
- Peter Houston Kostmayer D-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- John F. (Jack) Reed D-RI
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- Robert Mooneyhan Tallon Jr. (Robin) D-SC
- Timothy Peter (Tim) Johnson D-SD
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN
- John S. Tanner D-TN
- Jim Chapman D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- John Wiley Bryant D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards 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
- Charles Walter Stenholm 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
- Solomon P. Ortiz 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
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- Bernard Sanders I-VT
- 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
- 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
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-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
- Frank D. Riggs R-CA
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA
- Thomas J. Campbell R-CA
- John Taylor Doolittle R-CA
- Calvin M. Dooley D-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
- Randall (Duke) Cunningham R-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- A. Wayne Allard R-CO
- Joel M. Hefley R-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- Gary A. Franks R-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson 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
- Andrew Poysell (Andy) Ireland R-FL
- Thomas F. Lewis R-FL
- Porter J. Goss R-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Richard Belmont Ray D-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- James Allen Nussle R-IA
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
- Frederick Lawrence Grandy R-IA
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- John Dennis Hastert R-IL
- Thomas W. Ewing R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Jill Lynette Long D-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- 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
- Larry Jones Hopkins R-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- James O. Mccrery III R-LA
- Thomas Jerald Huckaby D-LA
- Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
- Clyde Cecil Holloway R-LA
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- Carl Duane Pursell R-MI
- Paul B. Henry R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- David Lee Camp R-MI
- Robert William Davis R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- John Vincent (Vin) Weber R-MN
- James (Jim) Ramstad R-MN
- Earl Thomas Coleman R-MO
- Melton D. (Mel) Hancock R-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-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
- Charles Hart Taylor R-NC
- William E. Barrett R-NE
- William H. Zeliff Jr. R-NH
- Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ
- Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Dean Anderson Gallo 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
- 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
- John Andrew Boehner R-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-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
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Gus Yatron D-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
- Ronald K. Machtley R-RI
- Arthur Ravenel Jr. R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Elizabeth J. Patterson D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John J. Duncan Jr. R-TN
- Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN
- Sam Johnson R-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX
- Preston M. (Pete) Geren 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
- William Orton D-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- George Allen R-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- John Ripin Miller R-WA
- Rodney Dennis Chandler R-WA
- 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
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Beryl Franklin Anthony Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Charles Floyd Hatcher D-GA
- Druie Douglas Barnard Jr. D-GA
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Timothy John Roemer D-IN
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Edolphus Towns D-NY
- Charles J. Luken D-OH
- Bob Mcewen R-OH
- William Herbert Gray III D-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Harry Stephen (Steve) Bartlett R-TX
- Daniel French Slaughter Jr. R-VA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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