House roll call 238 · 91st Congress · May 11, 1970
To pass H.R. 16595.
On May 11, 1970, the House voted 312–6 (HR 16595). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 173–0, Republicans 139–6. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 6 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
- 312
- No
- 6
- Did not vote
- 131
- Date
- May 11, 1970
By party
- Republicans139 yes · 6 no · 54 didn’t vote
- Democrats173 yes · 0 no · 77 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN voted no
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-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
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-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
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-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
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-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
- John William Davis D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel 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
- Abner Joseph Mikva 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
- 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
- Paul Findley 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
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-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
- 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
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- 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
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-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
- 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
- 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
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- 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
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-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
- Dominick Vincent Daniels 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
- 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 Michael Murphy D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-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
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy 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
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- 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
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-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
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- George Herbert Walker Bush R-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell 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
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González 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
- 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
- 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
- John Schiller Wold R-WY
How each representative voted: No
Did not vote
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. 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
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. R-CT
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- John Brademas D-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- John Glenn Beall Jr. R-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer 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
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Albert William Watson R-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- William Emerson Brock III R-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
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.