House roll call 390 · 91st Congress · Dec 2, 1970
To adopt H. RES. 1270, relating to telephone, telegraph, and radio-telegraph allowances for members of the House Of Representatives.
On Dec 2, 1970, the House voted 187–164 (HRES 1270). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 160–43, Republicans 27–121. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 70 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
- 187
- No
- 164
- Did not vote
- 98
- Date
- Dec 2, 1970
By party
- Republicans27 yes · 121 no · 51 didn’t vote
- Democrats160 yes · 43 no · 47 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK voted yes
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA voted yes
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted yes
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA voted no
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA voted yes
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA voted no
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO voted no
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID voted yes
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted yes
- Paul Findley R-IL voted yes
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted yes
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted no
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA voted yes
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted yes
- Hastings Keith R-MA voted yes
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME voted no
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI voted yes
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted yes
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI voted yes
- William Joseph Randall 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
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC voted no
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE voted yes
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY voted no
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY voted yes
- Allard Kenneth Lowenstein D-NY voted no
- Seymour Halpern R-NY voted yes
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY voted yes
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY voted yes
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted no
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted yes
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY voted no
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH voted yes
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH voted yes
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH voted yes
- Gus Yatron D-PA voted no
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA voted no
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA voted no
- James Grove Fulton R-PA voted yes
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted no
- James Robert Mann D-SC voted no
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN voted yes
- Ed Jones D-TN voted no
- Earle Cabell D-TX voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted no
- Richard Crawford White D-TX voted no
- George Herman Mahon D-TX voted no
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA voted no
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted no
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA voted no
- John Otho Marsh Jr. D-VA voted no
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA voted yes
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Howard Wallace Pollock R-AK
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Jeffery Cohelan D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Byron Giles Rogers D-CO
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Maston Emmett O'Neal Jr. D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- 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
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-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
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- 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
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- 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
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Samuel Nathaniel Friedel D-MD
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain 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
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Arnold Olsen D-MT
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Glenn Clarence Cunningham R-NE
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney 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
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan 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
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Richard Dean Mccarthy D-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- William Hanes Ayres R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Michael Aloysius Feighan D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Donald Edgar Lukens R-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- John Herman Dent 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
- Lucius Mendel Rivers D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- William Emerson Brock III R-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- William Victor Roth Jr. R-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- Harold Reginald Collier R-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
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- Richard Lowell Roudebush R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) 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
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- John Glenn Beall Jr. R-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Clark Macgregor R-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-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
- Nick Galifianakis 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
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- 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
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Allard Kenneth Lowenstein D-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- James Fred Hastings 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
- 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
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- George Herbert Walker Bush R-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III 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
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Henry Carl Schadeberg R-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Did not vote
- William Louis Dickinson 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
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- Glenard Paul Lipscomb R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Edwin Reinecke R-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- James Boyd Utt R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- John Varick Tunney D-CA
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Emilio Quincy Daddario D-CT
- William Leon St. Onge D-CT
- Thomas Joseph Meskill R-CT
- William Cato Cramer R-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- William Levi Dawson D-IL
- Daniel John Ronan D-IL
- Donald Henry Rumsfeld R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Edwin Ross Adair R-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- Chester Louis Mize R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- William Henry Bates R-MA
- John William Mccormack D-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- George Hyde Fallon D-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- 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
- James Franklin Battin R-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Thomas Cahill R-NJ
- Charles Samuel Joelson D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Edgar Franklin Foreman R-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. D-NY
- Leonard Farbstein D-NY
- Jacob H. Gilbert D-NY
- Martin Boswell Mckneally R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Daniel Evan Button R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Michael Joseph Kirwan D-OH
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- George Robert Watkins R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Albert William Watson R-SC
- Benjamin Reifel R-SD
- Ellis Yarnal Berry R-SD
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Robert Ashton Everett D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Laurence Junior Burton R-UT
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Catherine Dean May R-WA
- Melvin Robert Laird R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- John Schiller Wold R-WY
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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