House roll call 26 · 92nd Congress · Apr 1, 1971
To amend H.R. 6531 by extending the draft for 18 months instead of 24 months.
On Apr 1, 1971, the House voted 170–200 (HR 6531). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 119–93, Republicans 51–107. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 144 members voted against their own party.
During the 92nd Congress (1971–1972), Richard Nixon was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 170
- No
- 200
- Did not vote
- 73
- Date
- Apr 1, 1971
By party
- Democrats119 yes · 93 no · 46 didn’t vote
- Republicans51 yes · 107 no · 27 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- George William Andrews D-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
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted no
- George Paul Miller D-CA voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted yes
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA voted no
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted no
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- James Charles Corman D-CA voted no
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA voted no
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA voted yes
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted no
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted yes
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT voted no
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE voted yes
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL voted no
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted yes
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL voted no
- Frank Annunzio D-IL voted no
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL voted no
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL voted yes
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted yes
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted yes
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted yes
- John Clarence Watts D-KY voted no
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert 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
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA voted yes
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted no
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted yes
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted yes
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI voted yes
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted yes
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI voted yes
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI voted yes
- James Harvey R-MI voted yes
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI voted yes
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted yes
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted no
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted yes
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI voted yes
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted yes
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted yes
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN voted yes
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted no
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II 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
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC voted no
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted no
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
And 64 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Nicholas Joseph Begich D-AK
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ella Tambussi Grasso D-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- William Robert Roy D-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- Louise Day Hicks D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell 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
- 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
- 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
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- John Melcher D-MT
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Arthur Albert Link D-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-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
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- John Goodchild Dow D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- William John Keating R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- James George Abourezk D-SD
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- George William Andrews 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
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger 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
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- James Douglas (Mike) Mckevitt R-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis 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
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis 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
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson 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
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- John Hart Terry R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- 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
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
Did not vote
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- Elizabeth Bullock Andrews D-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- John William Davis D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Cliffard Dale Carlson R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- William Prather Curlin Jr. D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- William Sheldrick Conover II R-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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