House roll call 736 · 103rd Congress · Apr 21, 1994
(house agreed to the franks of new jersey amendment, as modified, that requires federal prisoners who do not possess a high school diploma or its equivalent to
On Apr 21, 1994, the House voted 345–79 on “On Agreeing to the Amendment” (HR 4092). Result: Agreed to. By party: Democrats 177–79, Republicans 170–2, Independents 0–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 81 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
- Agreed to
- Yes
- 345
- No
- 79
- Did not vote
- 17
- Date
- Apr 21, 1994
By party
- Republicans170 yes · 2 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Democrats177 yes · 79 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Earl Frederick Hilliard D-AL voted no
- Samuel G. Coppersmith D-AZ voted no
- Ed Pastor D-AZ voted no
- Daniel Hamburg D-CA voted no
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA voted no
- Lynn C. Woolsey D-CA voted no
- George Miller D-CA voted no
- Nancy Pelosi D-CA voted no
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA voted no
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA voted no
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA voted no
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA voted no
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA voted no
- Xavier Becerra D-CA voted no
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA voted no
- Lucille Roybal-Allard D-CA voted no
- Esteban Edward Torres D-CA voted no
- Maxine Waters D-CA voted no
- Walter R. Tucker III D-CA voted no
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA voted no
- Bob Filner D-CA voted no
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted no
- David Evans Skaggs D-CO voted no
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT voted no
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT voted no
- Eleanor Holmes Norton D-DC voted no
- Michael Newbold Castle R-DE voted no
- Carrie P. Meek D-FL voted no
- Alcee Lamar Hastings D-FL voted no
- John R. Lewis D-GA voted no
- Robert A. Underwood D-GU voted no
- Bobby L. Rush D-IL voted no
- Cardiss Collins D-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Peter Visclosky D-IN voted no
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- John Walter Olver D-MA voted no
- Barney Frank D-MA voted no
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA voted no
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD voted no
- Kweisi Mfume D-MD voted no
- David Edward Bonior D-MI voted no
- William David Ford D-MI voted no
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI voted no
- Barbara-Rose Collins D-MI voted no
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN voted no
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN voted no
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO voted no
- Melvin L. Watt D-NC voted no
- William John Hughes D-NJ voted no
- Donald Milford Payne D-NJ voted no
- Floyd Harold Flake D-NY voted no
- Jerrold Lewis Nadler D-NY voted no
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY voted no
- Edolphus Towns D-NY voted no
- Major Robert Odell Owens D-NY voted no
- Nydia M. Velázquez D-NY voted no
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY voted no
- José E. Serrano D-NY voted no
- Eliot Lance Engel D-NY voted no
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY voted no
- Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH voted no
- Louis Stokes D-OH voted no
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH voted no
- Michael Lynn Synar D-OK voted no
- Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR voted no
- Michael J. Kopetski D-OR voted no
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA voted no
- Lucien Edward Blackwell D-PA voted no
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA voted no
- James Enos Clyburn D-SC voted no
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN voted no
- Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX voted no
- Henry B. González D-TX voted no
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX voted no
- Robert C. Scott D-VA voted no
- Ron De Lugo D-VI voted no
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA voted no
- James A. Mcdermott D-WA voted no
- Myron Bradford (Mike) Kreidler D-WA voted no
And 1 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- 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
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Timothy Hutchinson R-AR
- Jay W. Dickey Jr. R-AR
- Eni F. H. Faleomavaega D-AS
- 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
- William P. Baker R-CA
- Richard William Pombo R-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Anna Georges Eshoo D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta 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
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Howard P. (Buck) Mckeon R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez D-CA
- Jane L. Harman D-CA
- John Stephen (Steve) Horn R-CA
- Edward Randall Royce 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
- Lynn Schenk D-CA
- Randall (Duke) Cunningham 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
- Rosa L. Delauro D-CT
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT
- Gary A. Franks R-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- Douglas Brian (Pete) Peterson D-FL
- Corrine Brown 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
- Daniel Miller R-FL
- Porter J. Goss R-FL
- James Bacchus D-FL
- Thomas F. Lewis R-FL
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL
- Harry A. Johnston II D-FL
- Peter R. Deutsch D-FL
- Lincoln Diaz-Balart R-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Jack Kingston R-GA
- Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. D-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
- John Nathan Deal D-GA
- Clete Donald Johnson Jr. (Don) D-GA
- Cynthia Ann Mckinney D-GA
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- James Allen Nussle R-IA
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Larry Larocco D-ID
- Michael Dean Crapo R-ID
- Mel Reynolds D-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Luis V. Gutiérrez D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- George Edward Sangmeister D-IL
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- John Dennis Hastert R-IL
- Thomas W. Ewing R-IL
- Donald A. Manzullo R-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Glenn Poshard D-IL
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL
- Timothy John Roemer D-IN
- Jill Lynette Long D-IN
- Stephen Earle Buyer R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- James Charles Slattery D-KS
- Jan Meyers R-KS
- Daniel Robert Glickman D-KS
- Thomas J. Barlow III D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- James Paul David Bunning R-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Henry Scott (Scotty) Baesler D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- William Jennings Jefferson D-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- Cleo Fields D-LA
- James O. Mccrery III R-LA
- Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
- James Allison Hayes D-LA
- Richard Edmund Neal D-MA
- Peter I. Blute R-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
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD
- Helen Delich Bentley R-MD
- Albert Russell Wynn D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Roscoe Gardner Bartlett R-MD
- Constance A. Morella R-MD
- Thomas Hiram Andrews D-ME
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME
- Bart T. Stupak D-MI
- Peter Hoekstra R-MI
- Vernon James Ehlers R-MI
- David Lee Camp R-MI
- James A. Barcia D-MI
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI
- Nick H. Smith R-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Joseph Knollenberg R-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN
- David R. Minge D-MN
- James (Jim) Ramstad R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-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
- Alan Dupree Wheat 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
- Bennie Thompson D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Michael (Mike) Parker D-MS
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- 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
- 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
- Peter J. Hoagland D-NE
- William E. Barrett R-NE
- William H. Zeliff Jr. R-NH
- Richard Swett D-NH
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ
- Robert Douglas Franks R-NJ
- Herbert C. Klein D-NJ
- Robert Guy Torricelli D-NJ
- Richard Zimmer R-NJ
- Robert Menendez D-NJ
- Steven Harvey Schiff R-NM
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- James Hubert Bilbray D-NV
- Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV
- George Joseph Hochbrueckner D-NY
- Enrico A. (Rick) Lazio R-NY
- Peter T. King R-NY
- David A. Levy R-NY
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY
- Susan Molinari R-NY
- Carolyn Bosher Maloney D-NY
- Nita M. Lowey D-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Michael Robert Mcnulty D-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- John Michael Mchugh R-NY
- James T. Walsh R-NY
- Maurice Dunlea Hinchey D-NY
- L. William Paxon R-NY
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
- John Francis (Jack) Quinn R-NY
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
- David Scott Mann D-OH
- 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
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Martin R. Hoke R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Sherrod Brown D-OH
- Deborah D. Pryce R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Eric D. Fingerhut D-OH
- James Mountain Inhofe R-OK
- William K. Brewster D-OK
- David Keith Mccurdy D-OK
- Ernest James Istook Jr. R-OK
- Elizabeth Furse D-OR
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- Ronald Klink D-PA
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Thomas Timothy (Tim) Holden D-PA
- Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA
- James Charles Greenwood R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky D-PA
- Paul F. Mchale Jr. D-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- Richard John (Rick) Santorum R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
- Carlos A. Romero-Barceló D-PR
- Ronald K. Machtley R-RI
- John F. (Jack) Reed D-RI
- Arthur Ravenel Jr. R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-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
- James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN
- John S. Tanner D-TN
- Jim Chapman D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Sam Johnson R-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- John Wiley Bryant 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
- Preston M. (Pete) Geren D-TX
- William Sarpalius D-TX
- Gregory H. Laughlin D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) 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
- Michael Allen Andrews D-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- Frank Tejeda D-TX
- Raymond Eugene (Gene) Green D-TX
- Eddie Bernice Johnson D-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- Karen Shepherd D-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
- James P. Moran D-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Leslie Larkin Byrne D-VA
- Maria E. Cantwell D-WA
- Jolene Unsoeld D-WA
- Jay Robert Inslee D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Jennifer Blackburn Dunn R-WA
- Peter William Barca D-WI
- Scott L. Klug R-WI
- Steven Craig Gunderson R-WI
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Thomas M. Barrett D-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
- Craig Lyle Thomas R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Earl Frederick Hilliard D-AL
- Samuel G. Coppersmith D-AZ
- Ed Pastor D-AZ
- Daniel Hamburg D-CA
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Lynn C. Woolsey D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Nancy Pelosi D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Xavier Becerra D-CA
- Julian Carey Dixon D-CA
- Lucille Roybal-Allard D-CA
- Esteban Edward Torres D-CA
- Maxine Waters D-CA
- Walter R. Tucker III D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Bob Filner D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- David Evans Skaggs D-CO
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Eleanor Holmes Norton D-DC
- Michael Newbold Castle R-DE
- Carrie P. Meek D-FL
- Alcee Lamar Hastings D-FL
- John R. Lewis D-GA
- Robert A. Underwood D-GU
- Bobby L. Rush D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Peter Visclosky D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- John Walter Olver D-MA
- Barney Frank D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD
- Kweisi Mfume D-MD
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Barbara-Rose Collins D-MI
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Melvin L. Watt D-NC
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
- Floyd Harold Flake 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
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- José E. Serrano D-NY
- Eliot Lance Engel D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
- Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
- Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
- Michael J. Kopetski D-OR
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- Lucien Edward Blackwell D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- James Enos Clyburn D-SC
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- Robert C. Scott D-VA
- Ron De Lugo D-VI
- Bernard Sanders I-VT
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA
- James A. Mcdermott D-WA
- Myron Bradford (Mike) Kreidler D-WA
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
Did not vote
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- Frederick Lawrence Grandy R-IA
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Ron Lewis R-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Paul B. Henry R-MI
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Alphonso Michael (Mike) Espy D-MS
- Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ
- Dean Anderson Gallo R-NJ
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Frank D. Lucas R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Craig Anthony Washington D-TX
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
Other votes
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