House roll call 189 · 105th Congress · Jun 11, 1997
(house rejected the serrano amendment that requires reports to Congress on official complaints by the government of cuba to the departments or agencies of the u
On Jun 11, 1997, the House voted 140–287 on “On Agreeing to the Amendment” (HR 1757). Result: Failed. By party: Republicans 0–223, Democrats 139–64, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 64 members voted against their own party.
During the 105th Congress (1997–1998), Bill Clinton was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Result
- Failed
- Yes
- 140
- No
- 287
- Did not vote
- 17
- Date
- Jun 11, 1997
By party
- Republicans0 yes · 223 no · 8 didn’t vote
- Democrats139 yes · 64 no · 9 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL voted no
- Brad Sherman D-CA voted no
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA voted no
- James H. Maloney D-CT voted no
- F. Allen Boyd Jr. D-FL voted no
- Corrine Brown D-FL voted no
- Karen L. Thurman D-FL voted no
- Jim Davis D-FL voted no
- Robert Wexler D-FL voted no
- Peter R. Deutsch D-FL voted no
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL voted no
- Luis V. Gutiérrez D-IL voted no
- Rod R. Blagojevich D-IL voted no
- Joseph Patrick Kennedy II D-MA voted no
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD voted no
- Bart T. Stupak D-MI voted no
- James A. Barcia D-MI voted no
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI voted no
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI 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
- Karen Mccarthy D-MO voted no
- Patsy Ann (Pat) Danner D-MO voted no
- Mike Mcintyre D-NC voted no
- Earl Ralph Pomeroy III D-ND voted no
- Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ voted no
- Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ voted no
- William J. Pascrell Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Steven Rothman D-NJ voted no
- Robert Menendez D-NJ voted no
- Carolyn Mccarthy D-NY voted no
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY voted no
- Eliot Lance Engel D-NY voted no
- Michael Robert Mcnulty D-NY voted no
- Ted Strickland D-OH voted no
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH voted no
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH voted no
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA voted no
- Thomas Timothy (Tim) Holden D-PA voted no
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA voted no
- Michael F. Doyle D-PA voted no
- Frank R. Mascara D-PA voted no
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy D-RI voted no
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC voted no
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN voted no
- John S. Tanner D-TN voted no
- Max A. Sandlin D-TX voted no
- Nicholas V. Lampson D-TX voted no
- Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX voted no
- Rubén Hinojosa D-TX voted no
- Silvestre Reyes D-TX voted no
- Kenneth E. Bentsen Jr. D-TX voted no
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX voted no
- Raymond Eugene (Gene) Green D-TX voted no
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA voted no
- Norman Sisisky D-VA voted no
- Virgil H. Goode Jr. D-VA voted no
- Adam Smith D-WA voted no
- Ron Kind D-WI voted no
- Jay W. Johnson D-WI voted no
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV voted no
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV voted no
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Earl Frederick Hilliard D-AL
- Robert Marion Berry D-AR
- Victor F. Snyder D-AR
- Ed Pastor D-AZ
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. 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
- Ellen O'Kane Tauscher D-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Anna Georges Eshoo D-CA
- Zoe Lofgren D-CA
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA
- Walter Holden Capps 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
- Juanita Millender-Mcdonald D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Loretta Sanchez D-CA
- Bob Filner D-CA
- Diana Degette D-CO
- David Evans Skaggs D-CO
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Carrie P. Meek D-FL
- Alcee Lamar Hastings D-FL
- Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. D-GA
- Cynthia Ann Mckinney D-GA
- John R. Lewis D-GA
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Leonard L. Boswell D-IA
- Bobby L. Rush D-IL
- Jesse L. Jackson Jr. D-IL
- Danny K. Davis D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Glenn Poshard D-IL
- Peter Visclosky D-IN
- Timothy John Roemer D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Julia May Carson D-IN
- Henry Scott (Scotty) Baesler D-KY
- William Jennings Jefferson D-LA
- Christopher John D-LA
- John Walter Olver D-MA
- Richard Edmund Neal D-MA
- James P. Mcgovern D-MA
- Barney Frank D-MA
- Martin Thomas Meehan D-MA
- John F. Tierney D-MA
- Edward John Markey D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Bill Delahunt D-MA
- Albert Russell Wynn D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Elijah Eugene Cummings D-MD
- Thomas H. Allen D-ME
- John Elias Baldacci D-ME
- Deborah Ann Stabenow D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Lynn Nancy Rivers D-MI
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- David R. Minge D-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- William Paul Luther D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Bennie Thompson D-MS
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS
- Eva M. Clayton D-NC
- Bobby R. Etheridge D-NC
- David Eugene Price D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Melvin L. Watt D-NC
- Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
- Gary Leonard Ackerman 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
- Carolyn Bosher Maloney D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- José E. Serrano D-NY
- Nita M. Lowey D-NY
- Maurice Dunlea Hinchey D-NY
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Dennis Kucinich D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Sherrod Brown D-OH
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
- Elizabeth Furse D-OR
- Earl Blumenauer D-OR
- Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
- Darlene Hooley D-OR
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- Chaka Fattah D-PA
- Ronald Klink D-PA
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Paul F. Mchale Jr. D-PA
- Robert A. Weygand D-RI
- James Enos Clyburn D-SC
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
- Harold Ford Jr. D-TN
- Jim Turner D-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- Lloyd Alton Doggett II D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Ciro D. Rodriguez D-TX
- Eddie Bernice Johnson D-TX
- Robert C. Scott D-VA
- James P. Moran D-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- Bernard Sanders I-VT
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- James A. Mcdermott D-WA
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Thomas M. Barrett D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- Robert Terry Everett R-AL
- Robert Riley R-AL
- Robert Aderholt R-AL
- Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL
- Spencer T. Bachus III R-AL
- Asa Hutchinson R-AR
- Jay W. Dickey Jr. R-AR
- Matthew James Salmon R-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- John B. Shadegg R-AZ
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- John D. Hayworth Jr. R-AZ
- Frank D. Riggs R-CA
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA
- John Taylor Doolittle R-CA
- Richard William Pombo R-CA
- Thomas J. Campbell R-CA
- George P. Radanovich R-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Elton W. Gallegly R-CA
- Brad Sherman D-CA
- Howard P. (Buck) Mckeon R-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- James E. Rogan R-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- John Stephen (Steve) Horn R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- Jay C. Kim R-CA
- Ken Calvert R-CA
- Sonny Bono R-CA
- Dana Rohrabacher R-CA
- Charles Christopher Cox R-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Brian P. Bilbray R-CA
- Randall (Duke) Cunningham R-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- Scott Mcinnis R-CO
- Robert W. Schaffer R-CO
- Joel M. Hefley R-CO
- Daniel Schaefer R-CO
- Christopher H. Shays R-CT
- James H. Maloney D-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Michael Newbold Castle R-DE
- Charles Joseph Scarborough R-FL
- F. Allen Boyd Jr. 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
- Jim Davis D-FL
- Charles Terrance Canady R-FL
- Daniel Miller R-FL
- Porter J. Goss R-FL
- David Joseph Weldon R-FL
- Mark A. Foley R-FL
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL
- Robert Wexler D-FL
- Peter R. Deutsch D-FL
- Lincoln Diaz-Balart R-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Jack Kingston R-GA
- Michael Allen (Mac) Collins R-GA
- Bob Barr R-GA
- Saxby Chambliss R-GA
- John Nathan Deal R-GA
- Charles W. Norwood Jr. R-GA
- John Elmer Linder R-GA
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- James Allen Nussle R-IA
- Greg Ganske 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
- Rod R. Blagojevich D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Gerald C. (Jerry) Weller R-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- John Dennis Hastert R-IL
- Thomas W. Ewing R-IL
- Donald A. Manzullo R-IL
- Ray H. Lahood R-IL
- John M. Shimkus R-IL
- David Martin Mcintosh R-IN
- Mark Edward Souder R-IN
- Stephen Earle Buyer R-IN
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- Edward Allan Pease R-IN
- John Nathan Hostettler R-IN
- Jerry Moran R-KS
- Jim Ryun R-KS
- Vincent K. Snowbarger R-KS
- Todd Tiahrt R-KS
- Wayne Edward (Ed) Whitfield R-KY
- Ron Lewis R-KY
- Anne Meagher Northup R-KY
- James Paul David Bunning R-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin R-LA
- James O. Mccrery III R-LA
- John Cooksey R-LA
- Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
- Joseph Patrick Kennedy II D-MA
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD
- Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. R-MD
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD
- Roscoe Gardner Bartlett R-MD
- Constance A. Morella R-MD
- 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
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- Joseph Knollenberg R-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- Gilbert W. Gutknecht R-MN
- James (Jim) Ramstad R-MN
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN
- James Matthes Talent R-MO
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
- Karen Mccarthy D-MO
- Patsy Ann (Pat) Danner D-MO
- Roy Blunt R-MO
- Jo Ann Emerson R-MO
- Kenny Hulshof R-MO
- Roger F. Wicker R-MS
- Charles W. (Chip) Pickering Jr. R-MS
- Michael (Mike) Parker R-MS
- Rick Hill R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Jr. R-NC
- Richard M. Burr R-NC
- Howard Coble R-NC
- Mike Mcintyre D-NC
- Sue Myrick R-NC
- Cass Ballenger R-NC
- Charles Hart Taylor R-NC
- Earl Ralph Pomeroy III D-ND
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Jon Lynn Christensen R-NE
- William E. Barrett R-NE
- John E. Sununu R-NH
- Charles Foster Bass R-NH
- 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. Pascrell Jr. D-NJ
- Steven Rothman D-NJ
- Rodney P. Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Michael James Pappas R-NJ
- Robert Menendez D-NJ
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- William Thomas Redmond R-NM
- John Eric Ensign R-NV
- James A. Gibbons R-NV
- Enrico A. (Rick) Lazio R-NY
- Peter T. King R-NY
- Carolyn Mccarthy D-NY
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY
- Eliot Lance Engel D-NY
- Sue W. Kelly R-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
- L. William Paxon R-NY
- John Francis (Jack) Quinn R-NY
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
- Steve Chabot R-OH
- Robert Jones (Rob) Portman R-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH
- Ted Strickland D-OH
- David Lee Hobson R-OH
- John Andrew Boehner R-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Deborah D. Pryce R-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
- Wesley Wade Watkins R-OK
- Julius Caesar Watts Jr. (J. C.) R-OK
- Ernest James Istook Jr. R-OK
- Frank D. Lucas R-OK
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- John Peterson 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
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Jon D. Fox R-PA
- Joseph R. Pitts R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- Michael F. Doyle D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Frank R. Mascara D-PA
- Philip Sheridan English R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy D-RI
- Mark Sanford R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Lindsey O. Graham R-SC
- Robert Durden Inglis R-SC
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- John Thune R-SD
- William Lewis Jenkins R-TN
- John J. Duncan Jr. R-TN
- Zachary Paul Wamp R-TN
- Van Hilleary R-TN
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- Ed Bryant R-TN
- John S. Tanner D-TN
- Max A. Sandlin D-TX
- Sam Johnson R-TX
- Pete Sessions R-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Kevin Patrick Brady R-TX
- Nicholas V. Lampson D-TX
- Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX
- Kay Granger R-TX
- William McClellan (Mac) Thornberry R-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Rubén Hinojosa D-TX
- Silvestre Reyes D-TX
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Lamar Seeligson Smith R-TX
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
- Henry Bonilla R-TX
- Kenneth E. Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- Raymond Eugene (Gene) Green D-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- Merrill Cook R-UT
- Christopher B. Cannon R-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- Virgil H. Goode Jr. D-VA
- Robert William Goodlatte R-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Thomas M. Davis III R-VA
- Richard Alan (Rick) White R-WA
- Jack Metcalf R-WA
- Linda Smith R-WA
- Richard Norman (Doc) Hastings R-WA
- George R. Nethercutt Jr. R-WA
- Jennifer Blackburn Dunn R-WA
- Adam Smith D-WA
- Mark W. Neumann R-WI
- Scott L. Klug R-WI
- Ron Kind D-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- Jay W. Johnson D-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
- Barbara L. Cubin R-WY
Did not vote
- Barbara Lee D-CA
- Sam Farr D-CA
- Lois Capps D-CA
- Edward Randall Royce R-CA
- Mary Bono R-CA
- Rosa L. Delauro D-CT
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- Heather Wilson R-NM
- Steven Harvey Schiff R-NM
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- Michael Patrick Forbes R-NY
- Floyd Harold Flake D-NY
- Gregory W. Meeks D-NY
- Susan Molinari R-NY
- Vito John Fossella R-NY
- Robert A. Brady D-PA
- Frank Tejeda D-TX
Other votes
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