House roll call 125 · 91st Congress · Nov 12, 1969
To pass H.R. 2777, relating to potato research and promotion.
On Nov 12, 1969, the House voted 171–198 (HR 2777). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 135–82, Republicans 45–125. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 127 members voted against their own party.
During the 91st Congress (1969–1970), Richard Nixon was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 171
- No
- 198
- Did not vote
- 62
- Date
- Nov 12, 1969
By party
- Republicans45 yes · 125 no · 29 didn’t vote
- Democrats135 yes · 82 no · 33 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted yes
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted yes
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted yes
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted yes
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA voted yes
- H. Allen Smith R-CA voted yes
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA voted yes
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA voted no
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT voted no
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA voted yes
- John Henry Kyl R-IA voted yes
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA voted no
- Wiley Mayne R-IA voted yes
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID voted yes
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID voted yes
- Paul Findley R-IL voted yes
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL voted no
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Ray John Madden D-IN voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted yes
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted yes
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted no
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA voted no
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA voted no
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted no
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI voted no
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted yes
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted no
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted yes
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN voted yes
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN voted yes
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted no
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted no
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC voted yes
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC voted yes
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted yes
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted yes
- Mark Andrews R-ND voted yes
- Thomas Savig Kleppe R-ND voted yes
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE voted yes
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ voted no
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ voted no
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ voted no
- Edward James Patten D-NJ voted no
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted no
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY voted no
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY voted no
And 47 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Thomas Savig Kleppe R-ND
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Allard Kenneth Lowenstein D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Frank James Brasco D-NY
- Bertram L. Podell D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Albert William Watson R-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- George Herbert Walker Bush R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Thomas Joseph Meskill R-CT
- William Victor Roth Jr. R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel 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
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Chester Louis Mize R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- William Owen Cowger R-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- John Glenn Beall Jr. R-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- 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
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-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
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- Martin Boswell Mckneally R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Daniel Evan Button R-NY
- Carleton James King 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
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- John Schiller Wold R-WY
Did not vote
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Robert Vernon Denney R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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