House roll call 308 · 92nd Congress · Dec 9, 1971
To adopt the conference on H.R. 11955.
On Dec 9, 1971, the House voted 302–73 (HR 11955). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 198–16, Republicans 106–57. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 73 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
- 302
- No
- 73
- Did not vote
- 66
- Date
- Dec 9, 1971
By party
- Democrats198 yes · 16 no · 44 didn’t vote
- Republicans106 yes · 57 no · 22 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted no
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted no
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- Sam Steiger R-AZ voted no
- H. Allen Smith R-CA voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA voted no
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA voted no
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA voted no
- John George Schmitz R-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted no
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Wiley Mayne R-IA voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted no
- Paul Findley R-IL voted no
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN voted no
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted no
- David Worth Dennis R-IN voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted no
- William Oswald Mills R-MD voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI voted no
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO voted no
- Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-MT voted no
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC voted no
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC voted no
- Charles Thone R-NE voted no
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE voted no
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ voted no
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY voted no
- Carleton James King R-NY voted no
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH voted no
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted no
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH voted no
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH voted no
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH voted no
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH voted no
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK voted no
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR voted no
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA voted no
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA voted no
- James Robert Mann D-SC voted no
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD voted no
- James Henry Quillen R-TN voted no
- LaMar Baker R-TN voted no
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX voted no
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted no
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted no
- Robert Dale Price R-TX voted no
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
- George William Whitehurst R-VA voted no
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted no
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA voted no
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA voted no
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA voted no
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA voted no
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA voted no
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA voted no
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI voted no
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Nicholas Joseph Begich D-AK
- 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
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes 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
- Ronald V. Dellums 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
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis 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
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Ella Tambussi Grasso D-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- 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
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback 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
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- William Robert Roy D-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
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- William Prather Curlin Jr. 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
- Speedy Oteria Long 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
- Torbert Hart Macdonald 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
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- 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
- 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
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington 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
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- John Melcher D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Arthur Albert Link D-ND
- 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
- Edwin Bell Forsythe 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
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney 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
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- John Goodchild Dow D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- John Hart Terry R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- William John Keating R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- John Haines Ware III 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
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- James George Abourezk D-SD
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage 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
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- John William Byrnes R-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
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-MT
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- 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
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
Did not vote
- Elizabeth Bullock Andrews D-AL
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- James Douglas (Mike) Mckevitt R-CO
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe 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
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- Cliffard Dale Carlson R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- 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
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- William Sheldrick Conover II R-PA
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Other votes
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