House roll call 553 · 103rd Congress · Nov 16, 1993
(house rejected the defazio amendment that sought to require the department of the interior and the department of agriculture to declare lands unsuitable for mi
On Nov 16, 1993, the House voted 197–229 on “On Agreeing to the Amendment” (HR 322). Result: Failed. By party: Democrats 160–97, Republicans 38–135, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 135 members voted against their own party.
During the 103rd Congress (1993–1994), Bill Clinton was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Result
- Failed
- Yes
- 197
- No
- 229
- Did not vote
- 15
- Date
- Nov 16, 1993
By party
- Republicans38 yes · 135 no · 7 didn’t vote
- Democrats160 yes · 97 no · 8 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
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR voted no
- Eni F. H. Faleomavaega D-AS voted no
- Ed Pastor D-AZ voted no
- Karan English D-AZ voted no
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA voted no
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA voted no
- George Miller D-CA voted no
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA voted no
- Sam Farr D-CA voted no
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA voted no
- Richard Henry Lehman D-CA voted no
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA voted no
- Randall (Duke) Cunningham R-CA voted yes
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT voted yes
- Gary A. Franks R-CT voted yes
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT voted yes
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL voted no
- Douglas Brian (Pete) Peterson D-FL voted no
- Karen L. Thurman D-FL voted no
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted no
- Daniel Miller R-FL voted yes
- Porter J. Goss R-FL voted yes
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL voted yes
- George (Buddy) Darden D-GA voted no
- James Roy Rowland Jr. D-GA voted no
- Robert A. Underwood D-GU voted no
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI voted no
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI voted no
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted yes
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA voted no
- Larry Larocco D-ID voted no
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL voted no
- John Edward Porter R-IL voted yes
- George Edward Sangmeister D-IL voted no
- Glenn Poshard D-IL voted no
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL voted no
- Jill Lynette Long D-IN voted no
- James Charles Slattery D-KS voted no
- Jan Meyers R-KS voted yes
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY voted no
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA voted no
- James Allison Hayes D-LA voted no
- Richard Edmund Neal D-MA voted no
- Peter I. Blute R-MA voted yes
- Peter Gerard Torkildsen R-MA voted yes
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD voted yes
- Constance A. Morella R-MD voted yes
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME voted yes
- James A. Barcia D-MI voted no
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI voted yes
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI voted no
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI voted no
- William David Ford D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted no
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN voted no
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN voted no
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO voted no
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted no
- Patsy Ann (Pat) Danner 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
- John Patrick Williams D-MT voted no
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC voted no
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC voted no
- Earl Ralph Pomeroy III D-ND voted no
- Richard Swett D-NH voted no
- William John Hughes D-NJ voted no
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ voted yes
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted yes
- Robert Douglas Franks R-NJ voted yes
- Herbert C. Klein D-NJ voted no
- Dean Anderson Gallo R-NJ voted yes
- Richard Zimmer R-NJ voted yes
And 55 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Earl Frederick Hilliard D-AL
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln D-AR
- Samuel G. Coppersmith D-AZ
- Daniel Hamburg D-CA
- Lynn C. Woolsey D-CA
- Nancy Pelosi D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Anna Georges Eshoo D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Xavier Becerra D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Lucille Roybal-Allard D-CA
- Esteban Edward Torres D-CA
- Maxine Waters D-CA
- Jane L. Harman D-CA
- Walter R. Tucker III D-CA
- Lynn Schenk D-CA
- Bob Filner D-CA
- Randall (Duke) Cunningham 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
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT
- Gary A. Franks R-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Eleanor Holmes Norton D-DC
- Corrine Brown D-FL
- Daniel Miller R-FL
- Porter J. Goss R-FL
- James Bacchus D-FL
- Carrie P. Meek D-FL
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL
- Harry A. Johnston II D-FL
- Peter R. Deutsch D-FL
- Alcee Lamar Hastings D-FL
- Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. D-GA
- John R. Lewis D-GA
- John Nathan Deal D-GA
- Clete Donald Johnson Jr. (Don) D-GA
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Bobby L. Rush D-IL
- Mel Reynolds D-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Luis V. Gutiérrez D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Peter Visclosky D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Timothy John Roemer D-IN
- Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Jan Meyers R-KS
- Thomas J. Barlow III D-KY
- Henry Scott (Scotty) Baesler D-KY
- William Jennings Jefferson D-LA
- Cleo Fields D-LA
- John Walter Olver D-MA
- Peter I. Blute R-MA
- Barney Frank D-MA
- Martin Thomas Meehan D-MA
- Peter Gerard Torkildsen R-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- Joseph Patrick Kennedy II D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD
- Albert Russell Wynn D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Kweisi Mfume D-MD
- Constance A. Morella R-MD
- Thomas Hiram Andrews D-ME
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- Bart T. Stupak D-MI
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Barbara-Rose Collins D-MI
- David R. Minge D-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Alan Dupree Wheat D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Bennie Thompson D-MS
- Eva M. Clayton D-NC
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. D-NC
- H. Martin Lancaster D-NC
- David Eugene Price D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Melvin L. Watt D-NC
- Peter J. Hoagland D-NE
- Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ
- Robert Douglas Franks R-NJ
- Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
- Dean Anderson Gallo R-NJ
- Richard Zimmer R-NJ
- Robert Menendez D-NJ
- Steven Harvey Schiff R-NM
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- George Joseph Hochbrueckner D-NY
- Enrico A. (Rick) Lazio R-NY
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY
- Jerrold Lewis Nadler D-NY
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
- Edolphus Towns D-NY
- Major Robert Odell Owens D-NY
- Nydia M. Velázquez D-NY
- Susan Molinari R-NY
- Carolyn Bosher Maloney D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel 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
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- Maurice Dunlea Hinchey D-NY
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- David Scott Mann D-OH
- Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Sherrod Brown D-OH
- Deborah D. Pryce R-OH
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
- Eric D. Fingerhut D-OH
- Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
- Elizabeth Furse D-OR
- Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
- Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
- Michael J. Kopetski D-OR
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- Ronald Klink D-PA
- Thomas Timothy (Tim) Holden D-PA
- Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA
- James Charles Greenwood R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Paul F. Mchale Jr. D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Ronald K. Machtley R-RI
- John F. (Jack) Reed D-RI
- Arthur Ravenel Jr. R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Enos Clyburn D-SC
- James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN
- John Wiley Bryant D-TX
- Preston M. (Pete) Geren D-TX
- Gregory H. Laughlin D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
- Craig Anthony Washington D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Michael Allen Andrews D-TX
- Frank Tejeda D-TX
- Raymond Eugene (Gene) Green D-TX
- Eddie Bernice Johnson D-TX
- Karen Shepherd D-UT
- Robert C. Scott D-VA
- James P. Moran D-VA
- Leslie Larkin Byrne D-VA
- Ron De Lugo D-VI
- Bernard Sanders I-VT
- Maria E. Cantwell D-WA
- Jolene Unsoeld D-WA
- James A. Mcdermott D-WA
- Myron Bradford (Mike) Kreidler D-WA
- Peter William Barca D-WI
- Scott L. Klug R-WI
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Thomas M. Barrett D-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- 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
- Robert Terry Everett R-AL
- John Glen Browder D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL
- Spencer T. Bachus III R-AL
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Timothy Hutchinson R-AR
- Jay W. Dickey Jr. R-AR
- Eni F. H. Faleomavaega D-AS
- Ed Pastor D-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- Jon Llewellyn Kyl R-AZ
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- Karan English D-AZ
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA
- John Taylor Doolittle R-CA
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- William P. Baker R-CA
- Richard William Pombo R-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Sam Farr D-CA
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA
- Richard Henry Lehman D-CA
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Michael Huffington R-CA
- Elton W. Gallegly R-CA
- Howard P. (Buck) Mckeon R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- John Stephen (Steve) Horn R-CA
- Edward Randall Royce R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- Jay C. Kim R-CA
- Ken Calvert R-CA
- Alfred A. Mccandless R-CA
- Dana Rohrabacher R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Charles Christopher Cox R-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- Scott Mcinnis R-CO
- A. Wayne Allard R-CO
- Joel M. Hefley R-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- Michael Newbold Castle R-DE
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- Douglas Brian (Pete) Peterson D-FL
- Tillie Kidd Fowler R-FL
- Karen L. Thurman D-FL
- Clifford Bundy Stearns R-FL
- John L. Mica R-FL
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Michael Bilirakis R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Charles Terrance Canady R-FL
- Thomas F. Lewis R-FL
- Lincoln Diaz-Balart R-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Jack Kingston R-GA
- Michael Allen (Mac) Collins R-GA
- John Elmer Linder R-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- George (Buddy) Darden D-GA
- James Roy Rowland Jr. D-GA
- Robert A. Underwood D-GU
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- James Allen Nussle R-IA
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Frederick Lawrence Grandy R-IA
- Larry Larocco D-ID
- Michael Dean Crapo R-ID
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- George Edward Sangmeister D-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- John Dennis Hastert R-IL
- Thomas W. Ewing R-IL
- Donald A. Manzullo R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Glenn Poshard D-IL
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL
- Jill Lynette Long D-IN
- Stephen Earle Buyer R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- James Charles Slattery D-KS
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- James Paul David Bunning R-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers 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
- James Allison Hayes D-LA
- Richard Edmund Neal D-MA
- Helen Delich Bentley R-MD
- Roscoe Gardner Bartlett R-MD
- Peter Hoekstra R-MI
- David Lee Camp R-MI
- James A. Barcia D-MI
- Nick H. Smith R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Joseph Knollenberg R-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN
- James (Jim) Ramstad R-MN
- Rod Grams R-MN
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN
- James Matthes Talent R-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Patsy Ann (Pat) Danner D-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
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Howard Coble R-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) R-NC
- Cass Ballenger R-NC
- Charles Hart Taylor R-NC
- Earl Ralph Pomeroy III D-ND
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- William E. Barrett R-NE
- William H. Zeliff Jr. R-NH
- Richard Swett D-NH
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- Herbert C. Klein D-NJ
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- James Hubert Bilbray D-NV
- Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV
- Peter T. King R-NY
- David A. Levy R-NY
- Floyd Harold Flake D-NY
- Michael Robert Mcnulty D-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- John Michael Mchugh R-NY
- James T. Walsh R-NY
- L. William Paxon R-NY
- John Francis (Jack) Quinn R-NY
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
- Robert Jones (Rob) Portman R-OH
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Ted Strickland D-OH
- David Lee Hobson R-OH
- John Andrew Boehner R-OH
- Martin R. Hoke R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- James Mountain Inhofe R-OK
- William K. Brewster D-OK
- David Keith Mccurdy D-OK
- Ernest James Istook Jr. R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- Richard John (Rick) Santorum R-PA
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
- Carlos A. Romero-Barceló D-PR
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Robert Durden Inglis R-SC
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- Timothy Peter (Tim) Johnson D-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John J. Duncan Jr. R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN
- John S. Tanner D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Charles Wilson 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
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX
- William Sarpalius D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Lamar Seeligson Smith R-TX
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
- Henry Bonilla R-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- William Orton D-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- Lewis Franklin Payne Jr. D-VA
- Robert William Goodlatte R-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA
- Jay Robert Inslee D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Jennifer Blackburn Dunn R-WA
- Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
- Craig Lyle Thomas R-WY
Did not vote
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Cynthia Ann Mckinney D-GA
- Ron Lewis R-KY
- Paul B. Henry R-MI
- Vernon James Ehlers R-MI
- Alphonso Michael (Mike) Espy D-MS
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Robert Guy Torricelli D-NJ
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Frank D. Lucas R-OK
- Lucien Edward Blackwell D-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Jim Chapman D-TX
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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