House roll call 191 · 91st Congress · Feb 19, 1970
To pass H.R. 15931.
On Feb 19, 1970, the House voted 315–81 (HR 15931). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 217–9, Republicans 100–74. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 83 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
- 315
- No
- 81
- Did not vote
- 49
- Date
- Feb 19, 1970
By party
- Republicans100 yes · 74 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Democrats217 yes · 9 no · 24 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted no
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA voted no
- H. Allen Smith R-CA voted no
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA voted no
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA voted no
- Craig Hosmer R-CA voted no
- James Boyd Utt R-CA voted no
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
- William Victor Roth Jr. R-DE voted no
- William Cato Cramer R-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted no
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- John Henry Kyl R-IA voted no
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted no
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL voted no
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL voted no
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted no
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- Paul Findley R-IL voted no
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN voted no
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN voted no
- David Worth Dennis R-IN voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted no
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD voted no
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted no
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI voted no
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted no
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI voted no
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted no
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted no
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN voted no
- Clark Macgregor R-MN voted no
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN voted no
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO voted no
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO voted no
- David Thomas Martin R-NE voted no
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted no
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ voted no
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ voted no
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted no
- Carleton James King R-NY voted no
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY voted no
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY voted no
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY voted no
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH voted no
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted no
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted no
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH voted no
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- Louis Stokes D-OH voted no
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA voted no
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA voted no
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA voted no
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA voted no
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA voted no
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted no
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD voted no
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD voted no
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN voted no
- Robert Dale Price R-TX voted no
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted no
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA voted no
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA voted no
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA voted no
- William Albert Steiger R-WI voted no
And 3 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson 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
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. R-CT
- Thomas Joseph Meskill R-CT
- 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
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-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
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle 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
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Chester Louis Mize R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- William Owen Cowger 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
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- John Glenn Beall Jr. R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- 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
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison 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
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain 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
- 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 Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe 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
- 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
- Allard Kenneth Lowenstein D-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Frank James Brasco D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Bertram L. Podell D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- Martin Boswell Mckneally R-NY
- Daniel Evan Button R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Albert William Watson R-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- George Herbert Walker Bush R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson 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
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- 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
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-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
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- William Victor Roth Jr. R-DE
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane 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
- Paul Findley R-IL
- 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
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- John Schiller Wold R-WY
Did not vote
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Thomas Savig Kleppe R-ND
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.