House roll call 651 · 105th Congress · Feb 25, 1998
H.R.2181 by mccollum (r-FL) -- witness protection and interstate relocation act of 1997 (house rejected the conyers amendment that sought to have the court chan
On Feb 25, 1998, the House voted 113–300 on “On Agreeing to the Amendment” (HR 2181). Result: Failed. By party: Republicans 7–214, Democrats 105–86, Independents 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 93 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
- 113
- No
- 300
- Did not vote
- 31
- Date
- Feb 25, 1998
By party
- Republicans7 yes · 214 no · 10 didn’t vote
- Democrats105 yes · 86 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Independents1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Robert E. (Bud) Cramer Jr. D-AL voted no
- Robert Marion Berry D-AR voted no
- Victor F. Snyder D-AR voted no
- Ed Pastor D-AZ voted no
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA voted no
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA voted no
- Lynn C. Woolsey D-CA voted no
- Ellen O'Kane Tauscher D-CA voted no
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA voted no
- Zoe Lofgren D-CA voted no
- Sam Farr D-CA voted no
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA voted no
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA voted no
- Brad Sherman D-CA voted no
- Jane L. Harman D-CA voted no
- Loretta Sanchez D-CA voted no
- James H. Maloney D-CT voted no
- F. Allen Boyd Jr. D-FL voted no
- Jim Davis D-FL voted no
- Robert Wexler D-FL voted no
- Peter R. Deutsch D-FL voted no
- Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. D-GA voted no
- Leonard L. Boswell D-IA voted no
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL voted no
- Rod R. Blagojevich D-IL voted no
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL voted no
- Peter Visclosky D-IN voted no
- Timothy John Roemer D-IN voted no
- Henry Scott (Scotty) Baesler D-KY voted no
- William Jennings Jefferson D-LA voted no
- Christopher John D-LA voted no
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD voted no
- Albert Russell Wynn D-MD voted no
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD voted no
- Peter Hoekstra R-MI voted yes
- Vernon James Ehlers R-MI voted yes
- James A. Barcia D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted no
- Gilbert W. Gutknecht R-MN voted yes
- Collin Clark Peterson D-MN voted no
- Richard Andrew Gephardt D-MO voted no
- Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO voted no
- Patsy Ann (Pat) Danner D-MO voted no
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS voted no
- Bobby R. Etheridge D-NC voted no
- David Eugene Price D-NC 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
- Michael James Pappas R-NJ voted yes
- Robert Menendez D-NJ voted no
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY voted no
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer 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
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA voted no
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA voted no
- Paul F. Mchale Jr. D-PA voted no
- Michael F. Doyle D-PA voted no
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA voted yes
- Frank R. Mascara D-PA voted no
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC voted no
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN voted no
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN voted no
- John S. Tanner D-TN voted no
- Max A. Sandlin D-TX voted no
- Jim Turner D-TX voted no
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX voted no
- Nicholas V. Lampson D-TX voted no
- Lloyd Alton Doggett II D-TX voted no
- Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX voted no
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX voted yes
- Rubén Hinojosa D-TX voted no
- Silvestre Reyes D-TX voted no
And 13 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Earl Frederick Hilliard D-AL
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Anna Georges Eshoo 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
- Juanita Millender-Mcdonald D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Bob Filner D-CA
- Diana Degette D-CO
- David Evans Skaggs D-CO
- Karen L. Thurman D-FL
- Carrie P. Meek D-FL
- Alcee Lamar Hastings D-FL
- Cynthia Ann Mckinney D-GA
- John R. Lewis D-GA
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Bobby L. Rush D-IL
- Jesse L. Jackson Jr. D-IL
- Luis V. Gutiérrez D-IL
- Danny K. Davis D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-IL
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Julia May Carson D-IN
- 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
- Elijah Eugene Cummings D-MD
- Thomas H. Allen D-ME
- John Elias Baldacci D-ME
- Bart T. Stupak D-MI
- Peter Hoekstra R-MI
- Vernon James Ehlers R-MI
- Deborah Ann Stabenow D-MI
- Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
- David Edward Bonior D-MI
- Sander Martin Levin D-MI
- Lynn Nancy Rivers D-MI
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick D-MI
- Gilbert W. Gutknecht R-MN
- David R. Minge D-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Karen Mccarthy D-MO
- Bennie Thompson D-MS
- Eva M. Clayton D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Melvin L. Watt D-NC
- Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
- Michael James Pappas R-NJ
- Carolyn Mccarthy D-NY
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- Gregory W. Meeks 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
- Michael Robert Mcnulty 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
- Chaka Fattah D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy D-RI
- Robert A. Weygand D-RI
- James Enos Clyburn D-SC
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX
- Eddie Bernice Johnson D-TX
- Robert C. Scott D-VA
- Bernard Sanders I-VT
- James A. Mcdermott D-WA
- Scott L. Klug R-WI
- Ron Kind D-WI
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Thomas M. Barrett D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Jay W. Johnson D-WI
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
- Robert Ellsworth Wise Jr. D-WV
- Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV
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
- Robert Marion Berry D-AR
- Victor F. Snyder D-AR
- Asa Hutchinson R-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
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- John D. Hayworth Jr. R-AZ
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA
- Victor Herbert Fazio Jr. D-CA
- John Taylor Doolittle R-CA
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Lynn C. Woolsey D-CA
- Ellen O'Kane Tauscher D-CA
- Richard William Pombo R-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Thomas J. Campbell R-CA
- Zoe Lofgren D-CA
- Sam Farr D-CA
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA
- George P. Radanovich R-CA
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Elton W. Gallegly R-CA
- Brad Sherman D-CA
- Howard P. (Buck) Mckeon R-CA
- James E. Rogan 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
- Dana Rohrabacher R-CA
- Loretta Sanchez D-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
- Tillie Kidd Fowler R-FL
- Clifford Bundy Stearns 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
- Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. D-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
- Leonard L. Boswell D-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
- 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
- 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
- Ray H. Lahood R-IL
- John M. Shimkus R-IL
- Peter Visclosky D-IN
- David Martin Mcintosh R-IN
- Timothy John Roemer D-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
- Henry Scott (Scotty) Baesler D-KY
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- William Jennings Jefferson D-LA
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin R-LA
- James O. Mccrery III R-LA
- John Cooksey R-LA
- Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
- Christopher John D-LA
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD
- Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. R-MD
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD
- Albert Russell Wynn D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
- Roscoe Gardner Bartlett R-MD
- Constance A. Morella R-MD
- David Lee Camp R-MI
- James A. Barcia D-MI
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI
- Nick H. Smith R-MI
- Joseph Knollenberg R-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- 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
- 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
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS
- Rick Hill R-MT
- Bobby R. Etheridge D-NC
- Walter Beaman Jones Jr. R-NC
- David Eugene Price D-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
- 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
- Robert Menendez D-NJ
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- William Thomas Redmond R-NM
- John Eric Ensign R-NV
- James A. Gibbons R-NV
- Michael Patrick Forbes R-NY
- Enrico A. (Rick) Lazio R-NY
- Peter T. King R-NY
- Thomas J. Manton D-NY
- Charles Ellis (Chuck) Schumer D-NY
- Vito John Fossella R-NY
- Sue W. Kelly R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Gerald Brooks Hunt Solomon R-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- John Michael Mchugh R-NY
- James T. Walsh 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
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Jon D. Fox R-PA
- Paul F. Mchale Jr. D-PA
- Joseph R. Pitts R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- Michael F. Doyle D-PA
- Frank R. Mascara D-PA
- Philip Sheridan English R-PA
- 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
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- Ed Bryant R-TN
- John S. Tanner D-TN
- Max A. Sandlin D-TX
- Jim Turner D-TX
- Sam Johnson R-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-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
- Lloyd Alton Doggett II D-TX
- Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX
- Kay Granger R-TX
- William McClellan (Mac) Thornberry R-TX
- Rubén Hinojosa D-TX
- Silvestre Reyes 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
- 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
- James P. Moran D-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-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
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- Jennifer Blackburn Dunn R-WA
- Adam Smith D-WA
- Mark W. Neumann R-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- Barbara L. Cubin R-WY
Did not vote
- Frank D. Riggs R-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Nancy Pelosi D-CA
- Barbara Lee D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Lois Capps D-CA
- Walter Holden Capps D-CA
- Mary Bono R-CA
- Sonny Bono R-CA
- Barbara Bailey Kennelly D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Rosa L. Delauro D-CT
- Corrine Brown D-FL
- John L. Mica R-FL
- Newton Leroy Gingrich R-GA
- Glenn Poshard D-IL
- William Paul Luther D-MN
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Heather Wilson R-NM
- Steven Harvey Schiff R-NM
- Bill Richardson D-NM
- Floyd Harold Flake D-NY
- Susan Molinari R-NY
- L. William Paxon R-NY
- Robert A. Brady D-PA
- Thomas Michael Foglietta D-PA
- Ronald Klink D-PA
- Harold Ford Jr. D-TN
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Ciro D. Rodriguez D-TX
- Frank Tejeda D-TX
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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