House roll call 222 · 91st Congress · Apr 16, 1970
To pass H.R. 16311.
On Apr 16, 1970, the House voted 243–155 (HR 16311). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 141–83, Republicans 102–72. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 155 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
- 243
- No
- 155
- Did not vote
- 51
- Date
- Apr 16, 1970
By party
- Republicans102 yes · 72 no · 25 didn’t vote
- Democrats141 yes · 83 no · 26 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted no
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted no
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- Sam Steiger R-AZ voted no
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA voted no
- H. Allen Smith R-CA voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted no
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA voted no
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- William Victor Roth Jr. R-DE 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
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- William Cato Cramer R-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted no
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted no
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA voted no
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- John William Davis D-GA voted no
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- John Henry Kyl R-IA voted no
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA voted no
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID voted no
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN voted no
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN voted no
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted no
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN voted no
- David Worth Dennis R-IN voted no
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS voted no
- Chester Louis Mize R-KS voted no
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS voted no
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS voted no
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted no
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI voted no
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted no
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- William Leonard Hungate 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
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
And 75 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- 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
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller 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
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Frank Edward Evans 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
- Thomas Joseph Meskill R-CT
- 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
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- 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
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- John Brademas D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- William Owen Cowger R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. 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
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-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
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown 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
- 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
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Clark Macgregor 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
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- 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
- 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
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Frank James Brasco 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
- 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
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. 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
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Richard Dellenback R-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
- 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
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- George Herbert Walker Bush R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- 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
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- 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
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- 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
- 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 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
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-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
- 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
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert 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
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate 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
- 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
- Robert Vernon Denney R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Martin Boswell Mckneally R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Albert William Watson R-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young 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
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- John Schiller Wold R-WY
Did not vote
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.