House roll call 757 · 103rd Congress · May 11, 1994
(house rejected the goss amendment that sought to abolish the appalachian regional commission.)
On May 11, 1994, the House voted 143–257 on “On Agreeing to the Amendment” (HR 2442). Result: Failed. By party: Democrats 17–216, Republicans 126–45. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 62 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
- 143
- No
- 257
- Did not vote
- 42
- Date
- May 11, 1994
By party
- Republicans126 yes · 45 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Democrats17 yes · 216 no · 32 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL voted no
- Robert Terry Everett R-AL voted no
- Spencer T. Bachus III R-AL voted no
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA voted yes
- Jane L. Harman D-CA voted yes
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA voted no
- Lynn Schenk D-CA voted yes
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA voted no
- Karen L. Thurman D-FL voted yes
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted no
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted no
- James Charles Slattery D-KS voted yes
- James Paul David Bunning R-KY voted no
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY voted no
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA voted yes
- Peter I. Blute R-MA voted no
- Martin Thomas Meehan D-MA voted yes
- Helen Delich Bentley R-MD voted no
- Roscoe Gardner Bartlett R-MD voted no
- Constance A. Morella R-MD voted no
- Olympia Jean Snowe R-ME voted no
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN voted yes
- David R. Minge D-MN voted yes
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN voted yes
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO voted no
- Charles Hart Taylor R-NC voted no
- Richard Swett D-NH voted yes
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted no
- Robert Douglas Franks R-NJ voted no
- Herbert C. Klein D-NJ voted yes
- Dean Anderson Gallo R-NJ voted no
- Steven Harvey Schiff R-NM voted no
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM voted no
- Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV voted no
- Susan Molinari 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
- James T. Walsh R-NY voted no
- John Francis (Jack) Quinn R-NY voted no
- David Scott Mann D-OH voted yes
- Robert Jones (Rob) Portman R-OH voted no
- Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH voted no
- David Lee Hobson R-OH voted no
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH voted no
- David Keith Mccurdy D-OK voted yes
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR voted no
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA voted no
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA voted no
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted no
- Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky D-PA voted yes
- George William Gekas R-PA voted no
- Richard John (Rick) Santorum R-PA voted no
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC voted no
- James Henry Quillen R-TN voted no
- Donald Kenneth Sundquist R-TN voted no
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX voted yes
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX voted yes
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA voted no
- Robert William Goodlatte R-VA voted no
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Timothy Hutchinson R-AR
- Jay W. Dickey Jr. R-AR
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- Jon Llewellyn Kyl R-AZ
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA
- John Taylor Doolittle R-CA
- William P. Baker R-CA
- Richard William Pombo R-CA
- Gary Adrian Condit 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
- Jane L. Harman D-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
- Lynn Schenk D-CA
- Randall (Duke) Cunningham R-CA
- Scott Mcinnis R-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
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Michael Newbold Castle R-DE
- 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
- Charles Terrance Canady R-FL
- Daniel Miller R-FL
- Porter J. Goss R-FL
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen 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
- James Allen Nussle R-IA
- Michael Dean Crapo R-ID
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Edward Porter R-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
- Stephen Earle Buyer R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- James Charles Slattery D-KS
- Jan Meyers R-KS
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- James O. Mccrery III R-LA
- Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
- Martin Thomas Meehan D-MA
- Peter Gerard Torkildsen R-MA
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD
- Peter Hoekstra R-MI
- Vernon James Ehlers R-MI
- David Lee Camp R-MI
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI
- Nick H. Smith R-MI
- Joseph Knollenberg R-MI
- Timothy Joseph Penny D-MN
- David R. Minge D-MN
- James (Jim) Ramstad R-MN
- Rod Grams R-MN
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN
- James Matthes Talent R-MO
- Melton D. (Mel) Hancock R-MO
- Howard Coble R-NC
- John Alexander Mcmillan III (Alex) R-NC
- Cass Ballenger R-NC
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- William H. Zeliff Jr. R-NH
- Richard Swett D-NH
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Herbert C. Klein D-NJ
- Richard Zimmer R-NJ
- Enrico A. (Rick) Lazio R-NY
- Peter T. King R-NY
- David A. Levy R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- John Michael Mchugh R-NY
- L. William Paxon R-NY
- David Scott Mann D-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- John Andrew Boehner R-OH
- Martin R. Hoke R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Deborah D. Pryce R-OH
- James Mountain Inhofe R-OK
- David Keith Mccurdy D-OK
- Ernest James Istook Jr. R-OK
- Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA
- James Charles Greenwood R-PA
- Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky D-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Ronald K. Machtley R-RI
- Arthur Ravenel Jr. R-SC
- Robert Durden Inglis R-SC
- John J. Duncan Jr. R-TN
- 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
- Henry Bonilla R-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Jennifer Blackburn Dunn 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
How each representative voted: No
- 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
- Eni F. H. Faleomavaega D-AS
- Samuel G. Coppersmith D-AZ
- Ed Pastor D-AZ
- Daniel Hamburg D-CA
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Lynn C. Woolsey D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Nancy Pelosi D-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Anna Georges Eshoo D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Sam Farr D-CA
- Richard Henry Lehman D-CA
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson 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
- Walter R. Tucker III D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Bob Filner D-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
- Eleanor Holmes Norton D-DC
- Earl Dewitt Hutto D-FL
- Douglas Brian (Pete) Peterson D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- James Bacchus D-FL
- Carrie P. Meek D-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
- 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 Ross Lightfoot R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Larry Larocco D-ID
- Mel Reynolds D-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Luis V. Gutiérrez D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- George Edward Sangmeister D-IL
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Glenn Poshard D-IL
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL
- Peter Visclosky D-IN
- Timothy John Roemer D-IN
- Jill Lynette Long D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Francis Xavier Mccloskey D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- 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
- Cleo Fields D-LA
- James Allison Hayes D-LA
- John Walter Olver D-MA
- Richard Edmund Neal D-MA
- Peter I. Blute R-MA
- Barney Frank D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- Joseph Patrick Kennedy II D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Helen Delich Bentley R-MD
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD
- Albert Russell Wynn D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Roscoe Gardner Bartlett R-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
- James A. Barcia D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Barbara-Rose Collins D-MI
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo 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
- Patsy Ann (Pat) Danner D-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Michael (Mike) Parker D-MS
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Itimous Thaddeus (Tim) Valentine Jr. 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
- Charles Hart Taylor R-NC
- Melvin L. Watt D-NC
- Earl Ralph Pomeroy III D-ND
- Peter J. Hoagland D-NE
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ
- Robert Douglas Franks R-NJ
- Robert Guy Torricelli D-NJ
- Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
- Dean Anderson Gallo 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
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY
- Jerrold Lewis Nadler D-NY
- Edolphus Towns D-NY
- Susan Molinari R-NY
- Carolyn Bosher Maloney D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- José E. Serrano D-NY
- Nita M. Lowey D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- James T. Walsh R-NY
- Maurice Dunlea Hinchey D-NY
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- John Francis (Jack) Quinn R-NY
- Robert Jones (Rob) Portman R-OH
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH
- Ted Strickland D-OH
- David Lee Hobson R-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Sherrod Brown D-OH
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
- Douglas Earl Applegate D-OH
- Eric D. Fingerhut D-OH
- Michael Lynn Synar D-OK
- William K. Brewster D-OK
- Elizabeth Furse D-OR
- Robert Freeman Smith R-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
- William Floyd Clinger Jr. R-PA
- Thomas Timothy (Tim) Holden D-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Paul F. Mchale Jr. D-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- Richard John (Rick) Santorum R-PA
- Austin John Murphy D-PA
- Carlos A. Romero-Barceló D-PR
- John F. (Jack) Reed D-RI
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- Timothy Peter (Tim) Johnson D-SD
- James Henry Quillen 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
- Jim Chapman D-TX
- 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
- 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
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Michael Allen Andrews D-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- Frank Tejeda D-TX
- Raymond Eugene (Gene) Green D-TX
- Karen Shepherd D-UT
- William Orton D-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
- Robert C. Scott 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
- Leslie Larkin Byrne D-VA
- Ron De Lugo D-VI
- Maria E. Cantwell D-WA
- Allan Byron Swift D-WA
- Jolene Unsoeld D-WA
- Jay Robert Inslee D-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- James A. Mcdermott D-WA
- Myron Bradford (Mike) Kreidler D-WA
- Peter William Barca D-WI
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Thomas M. Barrett D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
Did not vote
- Earl Frederick Hilliard D-AL
- Karan English D-AZ
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Leon Edward Panetta D-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- Corrine Brown D-FL
- Thomas F. Lewis R-FL
- Robert A. Underwood D-GU
- Frederick Lawrence Grandy R-IA
- Bobby L. Rush D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Ron Lewis R-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- William Jennings Jefferson D-LA
- Paul B. Henry R-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Alphonso Michael (Mike) Espy D-MS
- Bennie Thompson D-MS
- Eva M. Clayton D-NC
- William E. Barrett R-NE
- Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ
- Floyd Harold Flake D-NY
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
- Major Robert Odell Owens D-NY
- Nydia M. Velázquez D-NY
- Eliot Lance Engel D-NY
- Michael Robert Mcnulty D-NY
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Frank D. Lucas R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Lucien Edward Blackwell D-PA
- Thomas Joseph Ridge R-PA
- James Enos Clyburn D-SC
- James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN
- Craig Anthony Washington D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Eddie Bernice Johnson D-TX
- Bernard Sanders I-VT
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
Other votes
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