House roll call 208 · 91st Congress · Mar 19, 1970
To pass H.R. 16196, to reorganize the courts of the district of columbia, to revise the procedures for handling juveniles in the d.c., to codify title 23 of the
On Mar 19, 1970, the House voted 294–47 (HR 16196). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 155–60, Republicans 153–1. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 61 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
- 294
- No
- 47
- Did not vote
- 80
- Date
- Mar 19, 1970
By party
- Republicans153 yes · 1 no · 45 didn’t vote
- Democrats155 yes · 60 no · 35 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted no
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted no
- Phillip Burton D-CA voted no
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA voted no
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA voted no
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA voted no
- James Charles Corman D-CA voted no
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA voted no
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA voted no
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA voted no
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI voted no
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI voted no
- John Chester Culver D-IA voted no
- William Levi Dawson D-IL voted no
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA voted no
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME voted no
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI voted no
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI voted no
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted no
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI voted no
- William David Ford D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted no
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO voted no
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ voted no
- Allard Kenneth Lowenstein D-NY voted no
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY voted no
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY voted no
- Emanuel Celler D-NY voted no
- Frank James Brasco D-NY voted no
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY voted no
- Bertram L. Podell D-NY voted no
- John James Rooney D-NY voted no
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY voted no
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY voted no
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY voted no
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY voted no
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY voted no
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY voted no
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY voted no
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY voted no
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH voted no
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH voted no
- Louis Stokes D-OH voted no
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA voted no
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA voted no
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA voted no
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA voted no
- William Joseph Green D-PA voted no
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA voted no
- Henry B. González D-TX voted no
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA voted no
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA voted no
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA voted no
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA voted no
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI voted no
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no
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
- 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
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-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
- John Stephen Monagan D-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
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-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
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-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
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends 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
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-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
- William Huston Natcher D-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
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Richard Rarick 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
- Frank Bradford Morse R-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
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- 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
- 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
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- Odin Elsford Stanley Langen R-MN
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-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
- 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
- Thomas Savig Kleppe R-ND
- Robert Vernon Denney R-NE
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-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
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-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
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-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
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- 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
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-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
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young 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
- 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
- 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
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
- John Schiller Wold R-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Allard Kenneth Lowenstein D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal 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
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. 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
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- 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
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Did not vote
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Thomas Joseph Meskill R-CT
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- John William Davis D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Owen Cowger R-KY
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Albert William Watson R-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- George Herbert Walker Bush R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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