House roll call 450 · 105th Congress · Sep 25, 1997
(house rejected the hostettler amendment that sought to eliminate funding for the advanced technology program .)
On Sep 25, 1997, the House voted 177–235 on “On Agreeing to the Amendment” (HR 2267). Result: Failed. By party: Republicans 168–44, Democrats 9–190, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 53 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
- 177
- No
- 235
- Did not vote
- 32
- Date
- Sep 25, 1997
By party
- Republicans168 yes · 44 no · 19 didn’t vote
- Democrats9 yes · 190 no · 13 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no
Who broke with their party
- Robert Marion Berry D-AR voted yes
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA voted yes
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA voted yes
- Elton W. Gallegly R-CA voted no
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA voted no
- Jay C. Kim R-CA voted no
- Ken Calvert R-CA voted no
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA voted no
- Brian P. Bilbray R-CA voted no
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT voted no
- Michael Newbold Castle R-DE voted no
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted no
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL voted no
- Lincoln Diaz-Balart R-FL voted no
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted no
- Henry John Hyde R-IL voted no
- John Edward Porter R-IL voted no
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL voted no
- Thomas W. Ewing R-IL voted no
- Ray H. Lahood R-IL voted no
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY voted no
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin R-LA voted no
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD voted no
- Roscoe Gardner Bartlett R-MD voted no
- Constance A. Morella R-MD voted no
- Vernon James Ehlers R-MI voted no
- David Lee Camp R-MI voted no
- Joseph Knollenberg R-MI voted no
- David R. Minge D-MN voted yes
- William Paul Luther D-MN voted yes
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN voted yes
- Richard M. Burr R-NC voted no
- Mike Mcintyre D-NC voted yes
- Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ voted yes
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ voted no
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM voted no
- Peter T. King R-NY voted no
- Sue W. Kelly 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
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY voted no
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH voted no
- Steven C. Latourette R-OH voted no
- Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA voted no
- George William Gekas R-PA voted no
- Philip Sheridan English R-PA voted no
- Merrill Cook R-UT voted no
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA voted no
- Thomas M. Davis III R-VA voted no
- Thomas M. Barrett D-WI voted yes
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI voted no
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL
- Robert Terry Everett R-AL
- Robert Riley R-AL
- Robert Aderholt R-AL
- Spencer T. Bachus III R-AL
- Robert Marion Berry D-AR
- 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
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Thomas J. Campbell R-CA
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA
- George P. Radanovich R-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Howard P. (Buck) Mckeon R-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- John Stephen (Steve) Horn R-CA
- Edward Randall Royce R-CA
- Sonny Bono R-CA
- Dana Rohrabacher R-CA
- Charles Christopher Cox 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
- Charles Joseph Scarborough R-FL
- Tillie Kidd Fowler R-FL
- Clifford Bundy Stearns R-FL
- John L. Mica R-FL
- Ira William Mccollum Jr. (Bill) R-FL
- Michael Bilirakis R-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
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Jack Kingston 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 Allen Nussle R-IA
- Greg Ganske R-IA
- Thomas Latham R-IA
- Helen P. Chenoweth-Hage R-ID
- Michael Dean Crapo R-ID
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Gerald C. (Jerry) Weller R-IL
- John Dennis Hastert R-IL
- Donald A. Manzullo 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
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- John Cooksey R-LA
- Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
- Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. R-MD
- Peter Hoekstra R-MI
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI
- Nick H. Smith R-MI
- Gilbert W. Gutknecht R-MN
- David R. Minge D-MN
- James (Jim) Ramstad R-MN
- William Paul Luther D-MN
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN
- James Matthes Talent R-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
- Howard Coble R-NC
- Mike Mcintyre D-NC
- Sue Myrick R-NC
- Cass Ballenger R-NC
- 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
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Robert Douglas Franks R-NJ
- Rodney P. Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Michael James Pappas R-NJ
- William Thomas Redmond R-NM
- John Eric Ensign R-NV
- Michael Patrick Forbes R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- John Michael Mchugh R-NY
- L. William Paxon R-NY
- Steve Chabot R-OH
- Robert Jones (Rob) Portman R-OH
- Paul Eugene Gillmor R-OH
- David Lee Hobson R-OH
- John Andrew Boehner R-OH
- John Richard Kasich R-OH
- Deborah D. Pryce R-OH
- Robert William Ney 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
- John Peterson R-PA
- James Charles Greenwood R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Jon D. Fox R-PA
- Joseph R. Pitts R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Mark Sanford R-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Lindsey O. Graham R-SC
- Robert Durden Inglis R-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
- Ed Bryant R-TN
- Sam Johnson R-TX
- Pete Sessions R-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Kevin Patrick Brady R-TX
- Kay Granger R-TX
- William McClellan (Mac) Thornberry R-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Lamar Seeligson Smith R-TX
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- Christopher B. Cannon R-UT
- Robert William Goodlatte R-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf 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
- Mark W. Neumann R-WI
- Scott L. Klug R-WI
- Thomas M. Barrett D-WI
- Barbara L. Cubin R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL
- Earl Frederick Hilliard D-AL
- 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
- Anna Georges Eshoo D-CA
- Zoe Lofgren D-CA
- Sam Farr D-CA
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA
- Walter Holden Capps D-CA
- Elton W. Gallegly R-CA
- Brad Sherman 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
- Juanita Millender-Mcdonald D-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- Jay C. Kim R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Ken Calvert R-CA
- Loretta Sanchez D-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Brian P. Bilbray R-CA
- Bob Filner D-CA
- Diana Degette D-CO
- David Evans Skaggs D-CO
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Rosa L. Delauro D-CT
- James H. Maloney D-CT
- Nancy Lee Johnson R-CT
- Michael Newbold Castle R-DE
- F. Allen Boyd Jr. D-FL
- Corrine Brown D-FL
- Karen L. Thurman D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Jim Davis D-FL
- Carrie P. Meek D-FL
- Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL
- Robert Wexler D-FL
- Peter R. Deutsch D-FL
- Lincoln Diaz-Balart R-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
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Leonard L. Boswell D-IA
- Bobby L. Rush D-IL
- Jesse L. Jackson Jr. D-IL
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Luis V. Gutiérrez D-IL
- Rod R. Blagojevich D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Danny K. Davis D-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL
- Harris W. Fawell R-IL
- Thomas W. Ewing R-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Ray H. Lahood R-IL
- Glenn Poshard D-IL
- Peter Visclosky D-IN
- Timothy John Roemer D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Julia May Carson D-IN
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Henry Scott (Scotty) Baesler D-KY
- William Jennings Jefferson D-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin R-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
- Joseph Patrick Kennedy II D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Bill Delahunt D-MA
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD
- Albert Russell Wynn D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Roscoe Gardner Bartlett R-MD
- Elijah Eugene Cummings D-MD
- Constance A. Morella R-MD
- Thomas H. Allen D-ME
- John Elias Baldacci D-ME
- Bart T. Stupak D-MI
- Vernon James Ehlers R-MI
- David Lee Camp R-MI
- James A. Barcia D-MI
- Deborah Ann Stabenow 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
- Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. 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
- Karen Mccarthy D-MO
- Patsy Ann (Pat) Danner 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
- Richard M. Burr R-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Melvin L. Watt D-NC
- Earl Ralph Pomeroy III D-ND
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
- Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ
- William J. Pascrell Jr. D-NJ
- Steven Rothman D-NJ
- Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
- Robert Menendez D-NJ
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- Peter T. King R-NY
- Carolyn Mccarthy D-NY
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY
- Jerrold Lewis Nadler 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
- Eliot Lance Engel D-NY
- Nita M. Lowey D-NY
- Sue W. Kelly R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Michael Robert Mcnulty D-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
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
- Ted Strickland D-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Dennis Kucinich D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Sherrod Brown D-OH
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
- Steven C. Latourette R-OH
- Elizabeth Furse D-OR
- Earl Blumenauer D-OR
- Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
- Darlene Hooley D-OR
- Chaka Fattah D-PA
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- Ronald Klink D-PA
- Thomas Timothy (Tim) Holden D-PA
- Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon 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
- Michael F. Doyle D-PA
- Frank R. Mascara D-PA
- Philip Sheridan English R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy D-RI
- Robert A. Weygand D-RI
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- James Enos Clyburn D-SC
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- John S. Tanner D-TN
- Harold Ford Jr. D-TN
- Max A. Sandlin D-TX
- Jim Turner D-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- Nicholas V. Lampson D-TX
- Lloyd Alton Doggett II D-TX
- Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX
- Rubén Hinojosa D-TX
- Silvestre Reyes D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX
- Jonas Martin Frost D-TX
- Kenneth E. Bentsen Jr. D-TX
- Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
- Ciro D. Rodriguez D-TX
- Raymond Eugene (Gene) Green D-TX
- Eddie Bernice Johnson D-TX
- Merrill Cook R-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
- Robert C. Scott D-VA
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- Virgil H. Goode Jr. D-VA
- James P. Moran D-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- Thomas M. Davis III R-VA
- Bernard Sanders I-VT
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- James A. Mcdermott D-WA
- Adam Smith D-WA
- Ron Kind D-WI
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-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
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Barbara Lee D-CA
- Lois Capps D-CA
- James E. Rogan R-CA
- Mary Bono R-CA
- Alcee Lamar Hastings D-FL
- Michael Allen (Mac) Collins R-GA
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- James O. Mccrery III R-LA
- Charles Hart Taylor R-NC
- Heather Wilson R-NM
- Steven Harvey Schiff R-NM
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- James A. Gibbons R-NV
- Enrico A. (Rick) Lazio R-NY
- Floyd Harold Flake D-NY
- Gregory W. Meeks D-NY
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
- Susan Molinari R-NY
- Vito John Fossella R-NY
- John Francis (Jack) Quinn R-NY
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley R-OH
- Robert Freeman Smith R-OR
- Robert A. Brady D-PA
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Henry Bonilla R-TX
- Frank Tejeda D-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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