House roll call 411 · 92nd Congress · May 10, 1972
To agree to the conference report on H.R. 9212, a bill to extend black lung benefits to orphans whose fathers die of pneumoconiosis.
On May 10, 1972, the House voted 275–122 (HR 9212). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 201–23, Republicans 75–99. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 98 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
- 275
- No
- 122
- Did not vote
- 45
- Date
- May 10, 1972
By party
- Democrats201 yes · 23 no · 34 didn’t vote
- Republicans75 yes · 99 no · 11 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted yes
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted yes
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted yes
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA voted yes
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA voted yes
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA voted yes
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA voted yes
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA voted yes
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO voted yes
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted yes
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted yes
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA voted yes
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted yes
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted yes
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted yes
- Paul Findley R-IL voted yes
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN voted yes
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted yes
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted yes
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN voted yes
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted yes
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted yes
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted yes
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted no
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted yes
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD voted yes
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted yes
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted yes
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI voted yes
- James Harvey R-MI voted yes
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted yes
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI voted yes
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN voted yes
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN voted yes
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted no
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy 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
- Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-MT voted yes
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted no
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted no
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted yes
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ voted yes
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ voted yes
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ voted yes
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ voted yes
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ voted yes
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM voted yes
- Seymour Halpern R-NY voted yes
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY voted yes
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY voted yes
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted yes
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY voted yes
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted yes
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted yes
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted yes
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted yes
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH voted yes
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH voted yes
- John William Stanton R-OH voted yes
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH voted yes
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH voted yes
- John Jarman D-OK voted no
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR voted yes
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA voted yes
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA voted yes
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted yes
- John Irving Whalley R-PA voted yes
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA voted yes
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA voted yes
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA voted yes
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA voted yes
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted yes
And 18 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Nicholas Joseph Begich D-AK
- Elizabeth Bullock Andrews D-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers 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
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Morris King Udall D-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
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. 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
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-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
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-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
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. 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
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-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
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-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
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- William Robert Roy D-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- William Prather Curlin Jr. 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
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-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
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Ancher Nelsen 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
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Arthur Albert Link D-ND
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Frank James Brasco D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan 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
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-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
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- 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
- 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
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling 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
- 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
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- James George Abourezk D-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- 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
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- James Douglas (Mike) Mckevitt R-CO
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Cliffard Dale Carlson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- John Hart Terry R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- William John Keating R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine 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 Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Earle Cabell D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-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
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Did not vote
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Bertram L. Podell D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- William Sheldrick Conover II R-PA
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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