House roll call 203 · 91st Congress · Mar 5, 1970
To pass S. 2910.
On Mar 5, 1970, the House voted 209–133 (S 2910). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 155–35, Republicans 54–98. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 89 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
- 209
- No
- 133
- Did not vote
- 107
- Date
- Mar 5, 1970
By party
- Republicans54 yes · 98 no · 47 didn’t vote
- Democrats155 yes · 35 no · 60 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted yes
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted yes
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted yes
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted yes
- H. Allen Smith R-CA voted yes
- James Charles Corman D-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA voted yes
- Craig Hosmer R-CA voted yes
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- William Cato Cramer R-FL voted yes
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA voted yes
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted yes
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID voted yes
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID voted yes
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted yes
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted yes
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted yes
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL voted yes
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted yes
- Paul Findley R-IL voted yes
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted yes
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted yes
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted no
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA voted yes
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME voted no
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI voted no
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI voted yes
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted yes
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI voted yes
- Clark Macgregor 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
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
- Mark Andrews R-ND voted yes
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted yes
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ voted yes
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY voted no
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY voted no
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY voted yes
- Seymour Halpern R-NY voted yes
- Mario Biaggi D-NY voted no
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY voted yes
- Daniel Evan Button R-NY voted yes
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY voted yes
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted no
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY voted no
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted yes
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted yes
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted yes
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH voted yes
- John Jarman D-OK voted no
- George Robert Watkins R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted yes
- Robert James Corbett R-PA voted yes
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA voted no
- James Grove Fulton R-PA voted yes
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD voted yes
- John William Wright Patman D-TX voted no
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX voted no
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT voted yes
- George William Whitehurst R-VA voted yes
And 9 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- 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
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. 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
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- 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
- 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
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling 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
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- 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
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- James Colgate Cleveland 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
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-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
- Bertram L. Podell D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- Daniel Evan Button R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young 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
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. R-CT
- Thomas Joseph Meskill R-CT
- William Victor Roth Jr. R-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-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
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Thomas Savig Kleppe R-ND
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Martin Boswell Mckneally R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-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
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-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
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- John Schiller Wold R-WY
Did not vote
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- John William Davis D-GA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- John Glenn Beall Jr. R-MD
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- James Harvey R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Robert Vernon Denney R-NE
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Albert William Watson R-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.