House roll call 809 · 104th Congress · Nov 28, 1995
(house rejected the weller amendment that sought to require registered lobbyists to disclose any honoraria they pay to members of the media.)
On Nov 28, 1995, the House voted 193–233 on “On Agreeing to the Amendment” (HR 2564). Result: Failed. By party: Republicans 140–90, Democrats 53–142, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 143 members voted against their own party.
During the 104th Congress (1995–1996), Bill Clinton was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Result
- Failed
- Yes
- 193
- No
- 233
- Did not vote
- 19
- Date
- Nov 28, 1995
By party
- Republicans140 yes · 90 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Democrats53 yes · 142 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln D-AR voted yes
- Timothy Hutchinson R-AR voted no
- Ed Pastor D-AZ voted yes
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ voted no
- John D. Hayworth Jr. R-AZ voted no
- Frank D. Riggs R-CA voted no
- George Miller D-CA voted yes
- Nancy Pelosi D-CA voted yes
- Anna Georges Eshoo D-CA voted yes
- Sam Farr D-CA voted yes
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA voted yes
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA voted no
- Edward Randall Royce R-CA voted no
- Jay C. Kim R-CA voted no
- Ken Calvert R-CA voted no
- Brian P. Bilbray R-CA voted no
- Bob Filner D-CA voted yes
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT voted no
- Gary A. Franks R-CT voted no
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT voted no
- Michael Newbold Castle R-DE voted no
- Charles Joseph Scarborough R-FL voted no
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL voted no
- Michael Bilirakis R-FL voted no
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted no
- Charles Terrance Canady R-FL voted no
- Daniel Miller R-FL voted no
- Porter J. Goss R-FL voted no
- Mark A. Foley R-FL voted no
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL voted no
- Lincoln Diaz-Balart R-FL voted no
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL voted no
- John Elmer Linder R-GA voted no
- John Nathan Deal R-GA voted no
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI voted yes
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted no
- Greg Ganske R-IA voted no
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL voted yes
- Luis V. Gutiérrez D-IL voted yes
- Michael P. Flanagan R-IL voted no
- Henry John Hyde R-IL voted no
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL voted yes
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL voted no
- Glenn Poshard D-IL voted yes
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL voted yes
- Peter Visclosky D-IN voted yes
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted yes
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS voted no
- Sam Dale Brownback R-KS voted no
- Jan Meyers R-KS voted no
- Ron Lewis R-KY voted no
- Henry Scott (Scotty) Baesler D-KY voted yes
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin R-LA voted no
- Cleo Fields D-LA voted yes
- James O. Mccrery III R-LA voted no
- James Allison Hayes D-LA voted yes
- Peter I. Blute R-MA voted no
- Peter Gerard Torkildsen R-MA voted no
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD voted no
- Constance A. Morella R-MD voted no
- Peter Hoekstra R-MI voted no
- Joseph Knollenberg R-MI voted no
- Barbara-Rose Collins D-MI voted yes
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted yes
- Gilbert W. Gutknecht R-MN voted no
- James (Jim) Ramstad R-MN voted no
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN voted yes
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO voted yes
- James Matthes Talent R-MO voted no
- Patsy Ann (Pat) Danner D-MO voted yes
- Bennie Thompson D-MS voted yes
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS voted yes
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE voted no
- William E. Barrett R-NE voted no
- Frank A. Lobiondo R-NJ voted no
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ voted no
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted no
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ voted no
- Robert Douglas Franks R-NJ voted no
- William J. Martini R-NJ voted no
And 63 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- Robert Terry Everett R-AL
- Blanche Lambert Lincoln D-AR
- Jay W. Dickey Jr. R-AR
- Matthew James Salmon R-AZ
- Ed Pastor D-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- John B. Shadegg R-AZ
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA
- John Taylor Doolittle R-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Nancy Pelosi D-CA
- William P. Baker R-CA
- Richard William Pombo R-CA
- Anna Georges Eshoo D-CA
- Sam Farr D-CA
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA
- George P. Radanovich R-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Andrea Seastrand R-CA
- Elton W. Gallegly R-CA
- Howard P. (Buck) Mckeon R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Stephen (Steve) Horn R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- Sonny Bono R-CA
- Dana Rohrabacher R-CA
- Robert Kenneth Dornan R-CA
- Charles Christopher Cox R-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Bob Filner 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
- Clifford Bundy Stearns R-FL
- John L. Mica R-FL
- David Joseph Weldon R-FL
- Jack Kingston R-GA
- Michael Allen (Mac) Collins R-GA
- Bob Barr R-GA
- Saxby Chambliss R-GA
- Charles W. Norwood Jr. R-GA
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- James Allen Nussle R-IA
- James Ross Lightfoot R-IA
- Thomas Latham R-IA
- Helen P. Chenoweth-Hage R-ID
- Michael Dean Crapo R-ID
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Luis V. Gutiérrez D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Gerald C. (Jerry) Weller R-IL
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL
- John Dennis Hastert R-IL
- Thomas W. Ewing R-IL
- Donald A. Manzullo R-IL
- Ray H. Lahood R-IL
- Glenn Poshard D-IL
- Richard Joseph Durbin D-IL
- Peter Visclosky D-IN
- David Martin Mcintosh R-IN
- Mark Edward Souder R-IN
- Stephen Earle Buyer R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- John Nathan Hostettler R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Todd Tiahrt R-KS
- Wayne Edward (Ed) Whitfield R-KY
- James Paul David Bunning R-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Henry Scott (Scotty) Baesler D-KY
- Cleo Fields D-LA
- Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
- James Allison Hayes D-LA
- Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. R-MD
- Roscoe Gardner Bartlett R-MD
- James Longley R-ME
- Vernon James Ehlers R-MI
- David Lee Camp R-MI
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI
- Nick H. Smith R-MI
- Dick Chrysler R-MI
- Barbara-Rose Collins D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Patsy Ann (Pat) Danner D-MO
- Melton D. (Mel) Hancock R-MO
- Norvell William (Bill) Emerson R-MO
- Roger F. Wicker R-MS
- Bennie Thompson D-MS
- Michael (Mike) Parker R-MS
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS
- David Funderburk R-NC
- Walter Beaman Jones Jr. R-NC
- Fred Heineman R-NC
- Richard M. Burr R-NC
- Howard Coble R-NC
- Sue Myrick R-NC
- Cass Ballenger R-NC
- Charles Hart Taylor R-NC
- Jon Lynn Christensen R-NE
- William H. Zeliff Jr. R-NH
- Charles Foster Bass R-NH
- Robert Guy Torricelli D-NJ
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- Barbara Farrell Vucanovich R-NV
- Michael Patrick Forbes R-NY
- Dan Frisa R-NY
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
- Susan Molinari R-NY
- Carolyn Bosher Maloney D-NY
- Sue W. Kelly R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Michael Robert Mcnulty D-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- L. William Paxon R-NY
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH
- Frank Cremeans R-OH
- David Lee Hobson R-OH
- John Andrew Boehner R-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
- Robert William Ney R-OH
- Steven C. Latourette R-OH
- Steve Largent R-OK
- Thomas Allen Coburn R-OK
- William K. Brewster D-OK
- Julius Caesar Watts Jr. (J. C.) R-OK
- Ernest James Istook Jr. R-OK
- Frank D. Lucas R-OK
- Wes Cooley R-OR
- Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
- Jim Bunn R-OR
- 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
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Jon D. Fox R-PA
- Robert Smith Walker R-PA
- Michael F. Doyle D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Frank R. Mascara D-PA
- Philip Sheridan English R-PA
- Lindsey O. Graham R-SC
- Timothy Peter (Tim) Johnson D-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John J. Duncan Jr. R-TN
- Zachary Paul Wamp R-TN
- Van Hilleary R-TN
- Ed Bryant R-TN
- John S. Tanner D-TN
- Sam Johnson R-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Milton Fields Jr. R-TX
- Steve Stockman R-TX
- Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX
- Gregory H. Laughlin R-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Ronald D'Emory Coleman D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
- Henry Bonilla R-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- Frank Tejeda D-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- Jack Metcalf R-WA
- Richard Norman (Doc) Hastings R-WA
- George R. Nethercutt Jr. R-WA
- Randy J. Tate R-WA
- Mark W. Neumann R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Toby A. Roth R-WI
- Barbara L. Cubin R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John Glen Browder D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL
- Earl Frederick Hilliard D-AL
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Timothy Hutchinson R-AR
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- John D. Hayworth Jr. R-AZ
- Frank D. Riggs R-CA
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Lynn C. Woolsey D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Zoe Lofgren D-CA
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA
- Anthony Charles Beilenson D-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-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
- Edward Randall Royce R-CA
- Jay C. Kim R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Ken Calvert R-CA
- Brian P. Bilbray 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
- Michael Newbold Castle R-DE
- Charles Joseph Scarborough R-FL
- Douglas Brian (Pete) Peterson D-FL
- Corrine Brown D-FL
- Karen L. Thurman D-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
- Mark A. Foley R-FL
- Carrie P. Meek D-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
- Alcee Lamar Hastings D-FL
- Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. D-GA
- John Elmer Linder R-GA
- John R. Lewis D-GA
- John Nathan Deal R-GA
- Cynthia Ann Mckinney D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Greg Ganske R-IA
- Bobby L. Rush D-IL
- Michael P. Flanagan R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Timothy John Roemer D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Charles Patrick (Pat) Roberts R-KS
- Sam Dale Brownback R-KS
- Jan Meyers R-KS
- Ron Lewis R-KY
- Michael Delavan Ward D-KY
- William Jennings Jefferson D-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin R-LA
- James O. Mccrery III R-LA
- John Walter Olver D-MA
- Richard Edmund Neal 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
- John Elias Baldacci D-ME
- Bart T. Stupak D-MI
- Peter Hoekstra R-MI
- James A. Barcia D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Joseph Knollenberg R-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- Lynn Nancy Rivers D-MI
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Gilbert W. Gutknecht R-MN
- David R. Minge D-MN
- James (Jim) Ramstad R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- William Paul Luther D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- James Matthes Talent R-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Karen Mccarthy D-MO
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- John Patrick Williams D-MT
- Eva M. Clayton D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Melvin L. Watt D-NC
- Earl Ralph Pomeroy III D-ND
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- William E. Barrett R-NE
- Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ
- Frank A. Lobiondo R-NJ
- 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
- William J. Martini R-NJ
- Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
- Rodney P. Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Richard Zimmer R-NJ
- Robert Menendez D-NJ
- Steven Harvey Schiff R-NM
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- John Eric Ensign R-NV
- Enrico A. (Rick) Lazio R-NY
- Peter T. King R-NY
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- Floyd Harold Flake D-NY
- Jerrold Lewis Nadler 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
- Nita M. Lowey D-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- John Michael Mchugh R-NY
- James T. Walsh R-NY
- Maurice Dunlea Hinchey D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- John Francis (Jack) Quinn R-NY
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
- Steve Chabot R-OH
- Robert Jones (Rob) Portman R-OH
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Martin R. Hoke R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Sherrod Brown D-OH
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
- Deborah D. Pryce R-OH
- Elizabeth Furse D-OR
- Ronald Lee Wyden D-OR
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- Chaka Fattah D-PA
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Paul F. Mchale Jr. D-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy D-RI
- John F. (Jack) Reed D-RI
- Mark Sanford R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Robert Durden Inglis R-SC
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- James Enos Clyburn D-SC
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Jim Chapman D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- John Wiley Bryant D-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- Lloyd Alton Doggett II D-TX
- Preston M. (Pete) Geren D-TX
- William McClellan (Mac) Thornberry R-TX
- Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Lamar Seeligson Smith R-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Kenneth E. Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Raymond Eugene (Gene) Green D-TX
- Eddie Bernice Johnson D-TX
- Enid Greene Waldholtz R-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
- James P. Moran D-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Thomas M. Davis III R-VA
- Bernard Sanders I-VT
- Richard Alan (Rick) White R-WA
- Linda Smith R-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- James A. Mcdermott D-WA
- Jennifer Blackburn Dunn R-WA
- 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
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
Did not vote
- Spencer T. Bachus III R-AL
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- Thomas J. Campbell R-CA
- Juanita Millender-Mcdonald D-CA
- Walter R. Tucker III D-CA
- Tillie Kidd Fowler R-FL
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- John Nathan Deal D-GA
- Jesse L. Jackson Jr. D-IL
- Mel Reynolds D-IL
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin D-LA
- James Allison Hayes R-LA
- Elijah Eugene Cummings D-MD
- Harold Lee Volkmer D-MO
- Michael (Mike) Parker D-MS
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Earl Blumenauer D-OR
- Gregory H. Laughlin D-TX
Other votes
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