House roll call 348 · 91st Congress · Sep 17, 1970
To pass H.R. 17654
On Sep 17, 1970, the House voted 326–19 (HR 17654). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 186–13, Republicans 140–6. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 19 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
- 326
- No
- 19
- Did not vote
- 104
- Date
- Sep 17, 1970
By party
- Republicans140 yes · 6 no · 53 didn’t vote
- Democrats186 yes · 13 no · 51 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- John George Schmitz R-CA voted no
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted no
- John James Duncan R-TN voted no
- Earle Cabell D-TX voted no
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-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
- 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
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- William Victor Roth Jr. R-DE
- 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
- William Cato Cramer R-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
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- John William Davis 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
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- William Thomas Murphy D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Robert Mcclory 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
- 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
- John Brademas D-IN
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray 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
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- 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
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland 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
- 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
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan 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
- 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
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. 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
- Albert Harold Quie 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
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Arnold Olsen 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
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. 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
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-NM
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie 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
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. 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
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade 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
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent 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
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- James Henry Quillen 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
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt 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
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-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
- 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
- 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
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
Did not vote
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. R-CT
- Thomas Joseph Meskill R-CT
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- William Owen Cowger R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- Philip Joseph Philbin D-MA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- John Glenn Beall Jr. R-MD
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- Thomas Savig Kleppe R-ND
- Robert Vernon Denney R-NE
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- Daniel Evan Button R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Robert Taft Jr. R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Albert William Watson R-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- George Herbert Walker Bush R-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Schiller Wold R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.