House roll call 328 · 90th Congress · May 27, 1968
To amend H.R. 15280, a bill to amend the d.c. Public education act so as to make the federal city college a land-grant college. The dowdy amendment (in the nat
On May 27, 1968, the House voted 159–177 (HR 15280). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 66–114, Republicans 93–64. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 130 members voted against their own party.
During the 90th Congress (1967–1968), Lyndon B. Johnson was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 159
- No
- 177
- Did not vote
- 9
- Date
- May 27, 1968
By party
- Republicans93 yes · 64 no · 4 didn’t vote
- Democrats66 yes · 114 no · 5 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted no
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted yes
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR voted yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted yes
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR voted yes
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted no
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted no
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA voted no
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA voted no
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA voted no
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA voted no
- Thomas Joseph Meskill R-CT voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL voted yes
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted yes
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted yes
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted yes
- John William Davis D-GA voted yes
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted no
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL voted no
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL voted yes
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL voted no
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted no
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted no
- John Edward Roush D-IN voted yes
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted yes
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted yes
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted yes
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA voted no
- William Henry Bates R-MA voted no
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted no
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD voted yes
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD voted yes
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD voted no
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD voted yes
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted no
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI voted no
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI voted no
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted no
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted no
- Clark Macgregor R-MN voted no
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN voted no
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted yes
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC voted yes
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC voted yes
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted yes
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted yes
- Mark Andrews R-ND voted no
- Robert Vernon Denney R-NE voted no
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE voted no
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH voted no
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ voted no
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ voted no
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ voted no
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ voted no
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM voted yes
And 50 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Ezekiel Candler Gathings D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- William Victor Roth Jr. R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Albert Sydney Herlong Jr. D-FL
- Edward John Gurney R-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- Robert Joseph (Bob) Dole R-KS
- Chester Louis Mize R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Edward Willis D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC
- Horace Robinson Kornegay D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- Thomas Gayle Morris D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- James Vernon Smith R-OK
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Albert William Watson R-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Joe Richard Pool D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- George Herbert Walker Bush R-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Munford Tuck D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
How each representative voted: No
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Donald Jay Irwin D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Thomas Joseph Meskill R-CT
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Hervey Gilbert Machen D-MD
- Charles McCurdy Mathias Jr. R-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Basil Lee Whitener D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Robert Vernon Denney R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- E. S. Johnny Walker D-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- John Goodchild Dow D-NY
- Daniel Evan Button R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Charles Ellsworth Goodell R-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- George Milton Rhodes D-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Richard Schultz Schweiker R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
Voted present
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Armistead Inge Selden Jr. D-AL
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Cecil Rhodes King D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- Barratt O'Hara D-IL
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Charles Abraham Halleck R-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Frank Melvin Karsten D-MO
- Thomas Bradford Curtis R-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- James Carson Gardner R-NC
- Thomas Savig Kleppe R-ND
- Herbert Tenzer D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Frank James Brasco D-NY
- Edna Flannery Kelly D-NY
- Bertram L. Podell D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Theodore Roosevelt Kupferman R-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Paul Albert Fino R-NY
- Joseph Yale Resnick D-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Frances Payne Bolton R-OH
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Elmer Joseph Holland D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Robert Thomas Ashmore D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Porter Hardy Jr. D-VA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Arch Alfred Moore Jr. R-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
- William Henry Harrison R-WY
Did not vote
Other votes
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