House roll call 242 · 106th Congress · Jun 18, 1999
Mandatory Gun Show Background Check Act
On Jun 18, 1999, the House voted 147–280 on “On Passage” (HR 2122). Result: Failed. By party: Republicans 137–82, Democrats 10–197, Independents 0–1. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 92 members voted against their own party.
During the 106th Congress (1999–2000), Bill Clinton was president, and Republicans held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Result
- Failed
- Yes
- 147
- No
- 280
- Did not vote
- 13
- Date
- Jun 18, 1999
By party
- Republicans137 yes · 82 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Democrats10 yes · 197 no · 6 didn’t vote
- Independents0 yes · 1 no · 1 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK voted no
- Herbert Leon (Sonny) Callahan R-AL voted no
- Robert Terry Everett R-AL voted no
- Robert Riley R-AL voted no
- Robert Aderholt R-AL voted no
- Spencer T. Bachus III R-AL voted no
- Jay W. Dickey Jr. R-AR voted no
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ voted no
- John B. Shadegg R-AZ voted no
- John D. Hayworth Jr. R-AZ voted no
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA voted no
- Doug Ose R-CA voted no
- John Taylor Doolittle R-CA voted no
- Richard William Pombo R-CA voted no
- Thomas J. Campbell R-CA voted no
- Brian P. Bilbray R-CA voted no
- Scott Mcinnis R-CO voted no
- Robert W. Schaffer R-CO voted no
- Joel M. Hefley R-CO voted no
- Christopher H. Shays 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
- John L. Mica R-FL voted no
- Michael Allen (Mac) Collins R-GA voted no
- Saxby Chambliss R-GA voted no
- John Nathan Deal R-GA voted no
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA voted no
- Greg Ganske R-IA voted no
- Helen P. Chenoweth-Hage R-ID voted no
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL voted yes
- John Edward Porter R-IL voted no
- David Dwain Phelps D-IL voted yes
- John M. Shimkus R-IL voted no
- David Martin Mcintosh R-IN voted no
- Mark Edward Souder R-IN voted no
- Stephen Earle Buyer R-IN voted no
- Edward Allan Pease R-IN voted no
- John Nathan Hostettler R-IN voted no
- Jerry Moran R-KS voted no
- Jim Ryun R-KS voted no
- Todd Tiahrt R-KS voted no
- Wayne Edward (Ed) Whitfield R-KY voted no
- Ron Lewis R-KY voted no
- David Vitter R-LA voted no
- John Cooksey R-LA voted no
- Constance A. Morella R-MD voted no
- Frederick Stephen Upton R-MI voted no
- James (Jim) Ramstad R-MN voted no
- Jo Ann Emerson R-MO voted no
- Kenny Hulshof R-MO voted no
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS voted yes
- Rick Hill R-MT voted no
- Walter Beaman Jones Jr. R-NC voted no
- Richard M. Burr R-NC voted no
- Robert Cannon (Robin) Hayes R-NC voted no
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ voted no
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ voted no
- Rodney P. Frelinghuysen R-NJ voted no
- James A. Gibbons R-NV voted no
- Michael Patrick Forbes R-NY voted no
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted no
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY voted no
- Steve Chabot R-OH voted no
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH voted yes
- Robert William Ney R-OH voted no
- Thomas Allen Coburn R-OK voted no
- Ernest James Istook Jr. R-OK voted no
- Frank D. Lucas R-OK voted no
- John Peterson R-PA voted no
- Don Sherwood R-PA voted no
- Mark Sanford R-SC voted no
- John Thune R-SD voted no
- William Lewis Jenkins R-TN voted no
- Zachary Paul Wamp R-TN voted no
- Van Hilleary R-TN voted no
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN voted yes
- John S. Tanner D-TN voted yes
- Sam Johnson R-TX voted no
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX voted no
And 12 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Asa Hutchinson R-AR
- James Thomas Kolbe R-AZ
- George P. Radanovich R-CA
- Elton W. Gallegly R-CA
- Howard P. (Buck) Mckeon R-CA
- James E. Rogan R-CA
- David Timothy Dreier R-CA
- Steven T. Kuykendall R-CA
- John Stephen (Steve) Horn R-CA
- Edward Randall Royce R-CA
- Gary G. Miller R-CA
- Ken Calvert R-CA
- Mary Bono R-CA
- Dana Rohrabacher R-CA
- Charles Christopher Cox R-CA
- Ronald C. Packard R-CA
- Randall (Duke) Cunningham R-CA
- Duncan Lee Hunter R-CA
- Thomas G. Tancredo R-CO
- 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
- 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
- Lincoln Diaz-Balart R-FL
- Eugene Clay Shaw Jr. R-FL
- Jack Kingston R-GA
- Johnny Isakson R-GA
- Bob Barr R-GA
- Charles W. Norwood Jr. R-GA
- John Elmer Linder R-GA
- James Allen Nussle R-IA
- Thomas Latham R-IA
- Michael K. Simpson R-ID
- William Oliver Lipinski D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Gerald C. (Jerry) Weller R-IL
- Judy Borg Biggert R-IL
- John Dennis Hastert R-IL
- Thomas W. Ewing R-IL
- Donald A. Manzullo R-IL
- Ray H. Lahood R-IL
- David Dwain Phelps D-IL
- Danny Lee Burton R-IN
- Anne Meagher Northup R-KY
- Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
- Ernest L. Fletcher R-KY
- Wilbert Joseph (Billy) Tauzin R-LA
- James O. Mccrery III R-LA
- Richard Hugh Baker R-LA
- Wayne Thomas Gilchrest R-MD
- Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. R-MD
- Roscoe Gardner Bartlett R-MD
- Peter Hoekstra R-MI
- Vernon James Ehlers R-MI
- David Lee Camp R-MI
- Nick H. Smith R-MI
- Joseph Knollenberg R-MI
- Gilbert W. Gutknecht R-MN
- James Matthes Talent R-MO
- Roy Blunt R-MO
- Roger F. Wicker R-MS
- Charles W. (Chip) Pickering Jr. R-MS
- Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS
- Howard Coble R-NC
- Sue Myrick R-NC
- Cass Ballenger R-NC
- Charles Hart Taylor R-NC
- Douglas Kent Bereuter R-NE
- Lee Raymond Terry R-NE
- William E. Barrett R-NE
- John E. Sununu R-NH
- Charles Foster Bass R-NH
- Frank A. Lobiondo R-NJ
- Hugh James Saxton R-NJ
- Robert Douglas Franks R-NJ
- Heather Wilson R-NM
- Joseph Richard Skeen R-NM
- Enrico A. (Rick) Lazio R-NY
- Peter T. King R-NY
- Vito John Fossella R-NY
- Sue W. Kelly R-NY
- John E. Sweeney R-NY
- John Michael Mchugh R-NY
- James T. Walsh R-NY
- Thomas M. Reynolds R-NY
- John Francis (Jack) Quinn R-NY
- Amory Houghton Jr. R-NY
- Robert Jones (Rob) Portman R-OH
- Michael Garver Oxley 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
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- James A. Traficant Jr. D-OH
- Steven C. Latourette R-OH
- Steve Largent R-OK
- Wesley Wade Watkins R-OK
- Julius Caesar Watts Jr. (J. C.) R-OK
- Greg Walden R-OR
- Wayne Curtis (Curt) Weldon R-PA
- James Charles Greenwood R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Patrick Joseph Toomey R-PA
- Joseph R. Pitts R-PA
- George William Gekas R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Philip Sheridan English R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Lindsey O. Graham R-SC
- James W. Demint R-SC
- John J. Duncan Jr. R-TN
- Robert Nelson Clement D-TN
- Ed Bryant R-TN
- John S. Tanner D-TN
- Pete Sessions R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Kay Granger R-TX
- Lamar Seeligson Smith R-TX
- Thomas Dale Delay R-TX
- Richard Keith Armey R-TX
- James Vear Hansen R-UT
- Merrill Cook R-UT
- Christopher B. Cannon R-UT
- Herbert Harvell Bateman R-VA
- Norman Sisisky D-VA
- Robert William Goodlatte R-VA
- Thomas Jerome Bliley Jr. R-VA
- Frank Rudolph Wolf R-VA
- Thomas M. Davis III R-VA
- Jennifer Blackburn Dunn R-WA
- Adam Smith D-WA
- Paul D. Ryan R-WI
- Thomas Evert Petri R-WI
- Mark Green R-WI
- Frank James Sensenbrenner Jr. R-WI
- 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
- Earl Frederick Hilliard D-AL
- Robert Marion Berry D-AR
- Victor F. Snyder D-AR
- Jay W. Dickey Jr. R-AR
- Ed Pastor D-AZ
- Robert Lee Stump R-AZ
- John B. Shadegg R-AZ
- John D. Hayworth Jr. R-AZ
- Michael Thompson D-CA
- Walter William (Wally) Herger R-CA
- Doug Ose R-CA
- John Taylor Doolittle R-CA
- Robert T. Matsui D-CA
- Lynn C. Woolsey D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Nancy Pelosi D-CA
- Barbara Lee D-CA
- Ellen O'Kane Tauscher D-CA
- Richard William Pombo R-CA
- Thomas Peter Lantos D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Anna Georges Eshoo D-CA
- Thomas J. Campbell R-CA
- Zoe Lofgren D-CA
- Sam Farr D-CA
- Gary Adrian Condit D-CA
- Calvin M. Dooley D-CA
- Lois Capps D-CA
- Brad Sherman 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
- Grace Flores Napolitano D-CA
- Maxine Waters D-CA
- Juanita Millender-Mcdonald D-CA
- Loretta Sanchez D-CA
- Brian P. Bilbray R-CA
- Bob Filner D-CA
- Diana Degette D-CO
- Mark Udall D-CO
- Scott Mcinnis R-CO
- Robert W. Schaffer R-CO
- Joel M. Hefley R-CO
- John B. Larson D-CT
- Samuel Gejdenson D-CT
- Rosa L. Delauro D-CT
- 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
- Karen L. Thurman D-FL
- John L. Mica R-FL
- Jim Davis D-FL
- Carrie P. Meek D-FL
- Robert Wexler D-FL
- Peter R. Deutsch D-FL
- Alcee Lamar Hastings D-FL
- Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. D-GA
- Michael Allen (Mac) Collins R-GA
- Cynthia Ann Mckinney D-GA
- John R. Lewis D-GA
- Saxby Chambliss R-GA
- John Nathan Deal R-GA
- Neil Abercrombie D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- James Albert Smith Leach R-IA
- Leonard L. Boswell D-IA
- Greg Ganske R-IA
- Helen P. Chenoweth-Hage R-ID
- Bobby L. Rush D-IL
- Jesse L. Jackson Jr. D-IL
- Luis V. Gutiérrez D-IL
- Rod R. Blagojevich D-IL
- Danny K. Davis D-IL
- Janice D. Schakowsky D-IL
- John Edward Porter R-IL
- Jerry Francis Costello D-IL
- Lane Allen Evans D-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
- Edward Allan Pease R-IN
- John Nathan Hostettler R-IN
- Baron P. Hill D-IN
- Julia May Carson D-IN
- Jerry Moran R-KS
- Jim Ryun R-KS
- Dennis Moore D-KS
- Todd Tiahrt R-KS
- Wayne Edward (Ed) Whitfield R-KY
- Ron Lewis R-KY
- Ken Lucas D-KY
- David Vitter R-LA
- William Jennings Jefferson D-LA
- John Cooksey 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
- Michael Everett Capuano D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Bill Delahunt D-MA
- Benjamin Louis Cardin D-MD
- Albert Russell Wynn D-MD
- Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-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
- James A. Barcia D-MI
- Frederick Stephen Upton 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
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- James (Jim) Ramstad R-MN
- Bruce Frank Vento D-MN
- Martin Olav Sabo D-MN
- William Paul Luther D-MN
- Collin Clark Peterson 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
- Jo Ann Emerson R-MO
- Kenny Hulshof R-MO
- Bennie Thompson D-MS
- Clifford Ronald Shows D-MS
- Rick Hill R-MT
- Eva M. Clayton D-NC
- Bobby R. Etheridge D-NC
- Walter Beaman Jones Jr. R-NC
- David Eugene Price D-NC
- Richard M. Burr R-NC
- Mike Mcintyre D-NC
- Robert Cannon (Robin) Hayes R-NC
- Melvin L. Watt D-NC
- Earl Ralph Pomeroy III D-ND
- Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ
- Christopher Henry Smith R-NJ
- Margaret Scafati Roukema R-NJ
- Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ
- Steven Rothman D-NJ
- Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
- Rodney P. Frelinghuysen R-NJ
- Rush Holt D-NJ
- Robert Menendez D-NJ
- Thomas (Tom) Udall D-NM
- Shelley Berkley D-NV
- James A. Gibbons R-NV
- Michael Patrick Forbes R-NY
- Carolyn Mccarthy D-NY
- Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
- Gregory W. Meeks D-NY
- Joseph Crowley D-NY
- Jerrold Lewis Nadler D-NY
- Anthony D. Weiner 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
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Michael Robert Mcnulty D-NY
- Sherwood Louis Boehlert R-NY
- Maurice Dunlea Hinchey D-NY
- Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Steve Chabot R-OH
- Tony Patrick Hall D-OH
- Ted Strickland D-OH
- Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
- Dennis Kucinich D-OH
- Stephanie Tubbs Jones D-OH
- Sherrod Brown D-OH
- Thomas Charles Sawyer D-OH
- Robert William Ney R-OH
- Thomas Allen Coburn R-OK
- Ernest James Istook Jr. R-OK
- Frank D. Lucas R-OK
- David Wu D-OR
- Earl Blumenauer D-OR
- Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
- Darlene Hooley D-OR
- Robert A. Brady D-PA
- Chaka Fattah D-PA
- Robert Anthony Borski Jr. D-PA
- Ronald Klink D-PA
- John Peterson R-PA
- Thomas Timothy (Tim) Holden D-PA
- Don Sherwood R-PA
- Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Joseph M. Hoeffel D-PA
- William Joseph Coyne D-PA
- Michael F. Doyle D-PA
- Frank R. Mascara D-PA
- Patrick Joseph Kennedy D-RI
- Robert A. Weygand D-RI
- Mark Sanford R-SC
- John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
- James Enos Clyburn D-SC
- John Thune R-SD
- William Lewis Jenkins R-TN
- Zachary Paul Wamp R-TN
- Van Hilleary R-TN
- Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
- Harold Ford Jr. D-TN
- Max A. Sandlin D-TX
- Jim Turner D-TX
- Sam Johnson R-TX
- Ralph Moody Hall D-TX
- Joe Linus Barton R-TX
- Kevin Patrick Brady R-TX
- Nicholas V. Lampson D-TX
- Lloyd Alton Doggett II D-TX
- Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX
- William McClellan (Mac) Thornberry R-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Rubén Hinojosa D-TX
- Silvestre Reyes D-TX
- Charles Walter Stenholm D-TX
- Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX
- Larry Ed Combest R-TX
- Charles A. Gonzalez 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
- Owen Bradford Pickett D-VA
- Robert C. Scott D-VA
- Virgil H. Goode Jr. D-VA
- James P. Moran D-VA
- Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
- Bernard Sanders I-VT
- Jay Robert Inslee D-WA
- Jack Metcalf R-WA
- Brian Baird D-WA
- Richard Norman (Doc) Hastings R-WA
- George R. Nethercutt Jr. R-WA
- Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
- James A. Mcdermott D-WA
- Tammy Baldwin D-WI
- Ron Kind D-WI
- Gerald Daniel Kleczka D-WI
- Thomas M. Barrett D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
- Barbara L. Cubin R-WY
Did not vote
- Matthew James Salmon R-AZ
- William Marshall Thomas R-CA
- Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
- Matthew G. Martínez R-CA
- Charles Jeremy (Jerry) Lewis R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Joe Baca D-CA
- Robert Linlithgow Livingston Jr. R-LA
- David R. Minge D-MN
- William J. Pascrell Jr. D-NJ
- Michael Patrick Forbes D-NY
- Henry Bonilla R-TX
- Virgil H. Goode Jr. I-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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