On Approving the Journal

On Mar 12, 2010, the House voted 203–144 on “On Approving the Journal”. Result: Passed. By party: Democrats 186–29, Republicans 17–115. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 46 members voted against their own party.

During the 111th Congress (2009–2010), Barack Obama was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.

Result: Passed
Yes: 203
No: 144
Did not vote: 106
Date: Mar 12, 2010

By party

Republicans17 yes · 115 no · 50 didn’t vote
Democrats186 yes · 29 no · 54 didn’t vote

Who broke with their party

Bobby Neal Bright Sr. D-AL voted no
Ann Kirkpatrick D-AZ voted no
Harry E. Mitchell D-AZ voted no
Gabrielle Giffords D-AZ voted no
Tom Mcclintock R-CA voted yes
Dennis A. Cardoza D-CA voted no
Jim Costa D-CA voted no
Betsy Markey D-CO voted no
James A. Himes D-CT voted no
Michael Newbold Castle R-DE voted yes
Virginia (Ginny) Brown-Waite R-FL voted yes
Bill Posey R-FL voted yes
Thomas J. Rooney R-FL voted yes
Thomas Latham R-IA voted yes
Walt Minnick D-ID voted no
Timothy V. Johnson R-IL voted yes
Joe Donnelly D-IN voted no
Brad Ellsworth D-IN voted no
A. B. (Ben) Chandler D-KY voted no
Charles J. Melancon D-LA voted no
Frank M. Kratovil Jr. D-MD voted no
Gary C. Peters D-MI voted no
Erik Paulsen R-MN voted yes
Michele Bachmann R-MN voted yes
Collin Clark Peterson D-MN voted no
Blaine Luetkemeyer R-MO voted yes
Gary Eugene (Gene) Taylor D-MS voted no
Larry Kissell D-NC voted no
Heath Shuler D-NC voted no
Jeff Fortenberry R-NE voted yes
John H. Adler D-NJ voted no
Michael Arcuri D-NY voted no
Patrick (Pat) Tiberi R-OH voted yes
John A. Boccieri D-OH voted no
Daniel David Boren D-OK voted no
Kathleen A. (Kathy) Dahlkemper D-PA voted no
Jason Altmire D-PA voted no
Chris Carney D-PA voted no
Charles W. Dent R-PA voted yes
David P. (Phil) Roe R-TN voted yes
Glenn C. Nye III D-VA voted no
J. Randy Forbes R-VA voted yes
Tom Perriello D-VA voted no
Robert William Goodlatte R-VA voted yes
Gerald E. (Gerry) Connolly D-VA voted no
Shelley Moore Capito R-WV voted yes

How each representative voted: Yes

Robert Marion Berry D-AR
Victor F. Snyder D-AR
Michael Avery Ross D-AR
Tom Mcclintock R-CA
Doris Matsui D-CA
Lynn C. Woolsey D-CA
George Miller D-CA
Barbara Lee D-CA
John Garamendi D-CA
Jerry Mcnerney D-CA
Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
Anna Georges Eshoo D-CA
Mike Honda D-CA
Sam Farr D-CA
Lois Capps D-CA
Brad Sherman D-CA
Adam Schiff D-CA
Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
Xavier Becerra D-CA
Judy Chu D-CA
Diane Edith Watson D-CA
Lucille Roybal-Allard D-CA
Maxine Waters D-CA
Jane L. Harman D-CA
Laura Richardson D-CA
Linda T. Sánchez D-CA
Loretta Sanchez D-CA
Bob Filner D-CA
Susan A. Davis D-CA
Diana Degette D-CO
Jared Polis D-CO
John Salazar D-CO
Ed Perlmutter D-CO
John B. Larson D-CT
Joe Courtney D-CT
Rosa L. Delauro D-CT
Michael Newbold Castle R-DE
F. Allen Boyd Jr. D-FL
Corrine Brown D-FL
Virginia (Ginny) Brown-Waite R-FL
Alan Grayson D-FL
Kathy Castor D-FL
Bill Posey R-FL
Thomas J. Rooney R-FL
Kendrick B. Meek D-FL
Debbie Wasserman Schultz D-FL
Ron Klein D-FL
Alcee Lamar Hastings D-FL
Suzanne M. Kosmas D-FL
Sanford Dixon Bishop Jr. D-GA
Hank Johnson D-GA
John R. Lewis D-GA
John Barrow D-GA
David Scott D-GA
Mazie Hirono D-HI
Bruce Braley D-IA
Thomas Latham R-IA
Bobby L. Rush D-IL
Jesse L. Jackson Jr. D-IL
Daniel Lipinski D-IL
Mike Quigley D-IL
Danny K. Davis D-IL
Melissa L. Bean D-IL
Janice D. Schakowsky D-IL
Deborah L. Halvorson D-IL
Bill Foster D-IL
Timothy V. Johnson R-IL
Phil Hare D-IL
Peter Visclosky D-IN
André Carson D-IN
Dennis Moore D-KS
John Yarmuth D-KY
John Walter Olver D-MA
Richard Edmund Neal D-MA
James P. Mcgovern D-MA
Nicola S. (Niki) Tsongas D-MA
John F. Tierney D-MA
Edward John Markey D-MA
Michael Everett Capuano D-MA
Stephen F. Lynch D-MA
C. A. Dutch Ruppersberger D-MD
John Sarbanes D-MD
Donna F. Edwards D-MD
Steny Hamilton Hoyer D-MD
Elijah Eugene Cummings D-MD
Christopher Van Hollen D-MD
Chellie Pingree D-ME
Michael H. Michaud D-ME
Bart T. Stupak D-MI
Dale Edward Kildee D-MI
Mark H. Schauer D-MI
Sander Martin Levin D-MI
John Conyers Jr. D-MI
John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
Tim Walz D-MN
Erik Paulsen R-MN
Betty Mccollum D-MN
Keith Ellison D-MN
Michele Bachmann R-MN
James Louis Oberstar D-MN
Russ Carnahan D-MO
Isaac Newton Skelton IV (Ike) D-MO
Emanuel Cleaver II D-MO
Blaine Luetkemeyer R-MO
Bennie Thompson D-MS
George Kenneth Butterfield Jr. (G.K.) D-NC
Bobby R. Etheridge D-NC
David Eugene Price D-NC
Mike Mcintyre D-NC
Melvin L. Watt D-NC
Brad Miller D-NC
Jeff Fortenberry R-NE
Carol Shea-Porter D-NH
Paul Hodes D-NH
Robert Ernest Andrews D-NJ
Frank Pallone Jr. D-NJ
William J. Pascrell Jr. D-NJ
Steven Rothman D-NJ
Donald Milford Payne D-NJ
Rush Holt D-NJ
Martin Heinrich D-NM
Harry Teague D-NM
Shelley Berkley D-NV
Alice (Dina) Titus D-NV
Timothy H. Bishop D-NY
Steve Israel D-NY
Carolyn Mccarthy D-NY
Gregory W. Meeks D-NY
Joseph Crowley D-NY
Anthony D. Weiner D-NY
Edolphus Towns D-NY
Yvette Diane Clarke D-NY
Nydia M. Velázquez D-NY
Michael E. Mcmahon D-NY
Charles B. Rangel D-NY
José E. Serrano D-NY
Eliot Lance Engel D-NY
Nita M. Lowey D-NY
John Hall D-NY
Paul Tonko D-NY
Maurice Dunlea Hinchey D-NY
William Owens D-NY
Daniel B. Maffei D-NY
Louise McIntosh Slaughter D-NY
Steve Driehaus D-OH
Charlie Wilson D-OH
Dennis Kucinich D-OH
Marcia L. Fudge D-OH
Patrick (Pat) Tiberi R-OH
Mary Jo Kilroy D-OH
Timothy J. Ryan D-OH
Zack Space D-OH
David Wu D-OR
Earl Blumenauer D-OR
Kurt Schrader D-OR
Robert A. Brady D-PA
Chaka Fattah D-PA
Joe Sestak D-PA
Patrick Murphy D-PA
Paul E. Kanjorski D-PA
Allyson Y. Schwartz D-PA
Michael F. Doyle D-PA
Charles W. Dent R-PA
Thomas Timothy (Tim) Holden D-PA
Patrick Joseph Kennedy D-RI
James Langevin D-RI
John McKee Spratt Jr. D-SC
James Enos Clyburn D-SC
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin D-SD
David P. (Phil) Roe R-TN
Lincoln Davis D-TN
James Hayes Shofner Cooper D-TN
Barton Jennings Gordon D-TN
John S. Tanner D-TN
Stephen Cohen D-TN
Al Green D-TX
Rubén Hinojosa D-TX
Thomas Chester (Chet) Edwards D-TX
Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX
Charles A. Gonzalez D-TX
Lloyd Alton Doggett II D-TX
Solomon P. Ortiz D-TX
Henry Cuellar D-TX
Raymond Eugene (Gene) Green D-TX
Eddie Bernice Johnson D-TX
James David (Jim) Matheson D-UT
Robert C. Scott D-VA
J. Randy Forbes R-VA
Robert William Goodlatte R-VA
James P. Moran D-VA
Frederick C. Boucher D-VA
Peter Welch D-VT
Jay Robert Inslee D-WA
Richard Ray (Rick) Larsen D-WA
Brian Baird D-WA
Norman DeValois Dicks D-WA
James A. Mcdermott D-WA
Tammy Baldwin D-WI
Ron Kind D-WI
David Ross Obey D-WI
Alan Bowlby Mollohan D-WV
Shelley Moore Capito R-WV
Nick Joe Rahall II D-WV

How each representative voted: No

Voted present

Louie Gohmert R-TX

Did not vote

Parker Griffith D-AL
Artur Davis D-AL
Eni F. H. Faleomavaega D-AS
Ed Pastor D-AZ
Jeff Flake R-AZ
Raúl M. Grijalva D-AZ
Michael Thompson D-CA
Nancy Pelosi D-CA
Ellen O'Kane Tauscher D-CA
Karen Lorraine Jacqueline (Jackie) Speier D-CA
Zoe Lofgren D-CA
Elton W. Gallegly R-CA
Howard Lawrence Berman D-CA
Hilda L. Solis D-CA
Grace Flores Napolitano D-CA
Gary G. Miller R-CA
Joe Baca D-CA
Ken Calvert R-CA
Dana Rohrabacher R-CA
John Campbell R-CA
Darrell Issa R-CA
Christopher Murphy D-CT
Eleanor Holmes Norton D-DC
Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
Vernon G. Buchanan R-FL
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen R-FL
Robert Wexler D-FL
Theodore E. (Ted) Deutch D-FL
Lincoln Diaz-Balart R-FL
Mario Diaz-Balart R-FL
John Elmer Linder R-GA
Jim Marshall D-GA
John Nathan Deal R-GA
Tom Graves R-GA
Phil Gingrey R-GA
Madeleine Bordallo D-GU
Charles Djou R-HI
Neil Abercrombie D-HI
Dave Loebsack D-IA
Leonard L. Boswell D-IA
Michael K. Simpson R-ID
Luis V. Gutiérrez D-IL
Peter Roskam R-IL
Mark Steven Kirk R-IL
Jerry Francis Costello D-IL
Aaron Schock R-IL
John M. Shimkus R-IL
Marlin Stutzman R-IN
Stephen Earle Buyer R-IN
Mike Pence R-IN
Baron P. Hill D-IN
Jerry Moran R-KS
Harold Dallas (Hal) Rogers R-KY
Anh (Joseph) Cao R-LA
Rodney Alexander R-LA
Barney Frank D-MA
Bill Delahunt D-MA
Peter Hoekstra R-MI
Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick D-MI
William Lacy Clay Jr. D-MO
Roy Blunt R-MO
Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan D-MP
Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan I-MP
Travis W. Childers D-MS
Walter Beaman Jones Jr. R-NC
Earl Ralph Pomeroy III D-ND
Lee Raymond Terry R-NE
Albio Sires D-NJ
Ben Ray Luján D-NM
Dean Heller R-NV
Gary Leonard Ackerman D-NY
Jerrold Lewis Nadler D-NY
Carolyn Bosher Maloney D-NY
Kirsten Gillibrand D-NY
Scott Murphy D-NY
John Michael Mchugh R-NY
Brian Higgins D-NY
Eric J.J. Massa D-NY
Thomas W. Reed II R-NY
Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur D-OH
Betty Sutton D-OH
Steven C. Latourette R-OH
Greg Walden R-OR
Peter Anthony Defazio D-OR
John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
Mark S. Critz D-PA
Timothy Murphy R-PA
Pedro Pierluisi I-PR
Pedro Pierluisi D-PR
Henry Edward Brown Jr. R-SC
Zachary Paul Wamp R-TN
Sam Johnson R-TX
Joe Linus Barton R-TX
Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
Silvestre Reyes D-TX
Ciro D. Rodriguez D-TX
Kenny Marchant R-TX
Michael C. Burgess R-TX
John R. Carter R-TX
Robert (Rob) Bishop R-UT
Jason Chaffetz R-UT
Donna Marie Christensen D-VI
Adam Smith D-WA
Paul D. Ryan R-WI
Gwendolynne S. (Gwen) Moore D-WI
Steven Kagen D-WI

Other votes

From Voteview roll call records.

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