House roll call 439 · 92nd Congress · Jun 1, 1972
To amend H.R. 13918 so as to prohibit the corporation from conducting voter polls or public opinion surveys pertaining to federal, state, or local elections.
On Jun 1, 1972, the House voted 203–135 (HR 13918). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 73–116, Republicans 130–21. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 94 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
- 203
- No
- 135
- Did not vote
- 103
- Date
- Jun 1, 1972
By party
- Democrats73 yes · 116 no · 69 didn’t vote
- Republicans130 yes · 21 no · 34 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Elizabeth Bullock Andrews D-AL voted yes
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted yes
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted yes
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted yes
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT voted no
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted no
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted yes
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted yes
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted yes
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted yes
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted yes
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL voted yes
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted yes
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted yes
- John William Davis D-GA voted yes
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted yes
- Wiley Mayne R-IA voted no
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID voted no
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL voted yes
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted no
- John Edward Roush D-IN voted yes
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN voted yes
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted yes
- William Prather Curlin Jr. D-KY voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted yes
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted yes
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI voted no
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted no
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted no
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO voted yes
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted yes
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted yes
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted yes
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted yes
- Mark Andrews R-ND voted no
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ voted yes
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted yes
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY voted yes
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY voted yes
- Mario Biaggi D-NY voted yes
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY voted no
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted no
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY voted no
- James Fred Hastings R-NY voted no
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted no
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH voted no
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH voted yes
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH voted yes
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted yes
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR voted yes
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR voted no
- William Joseph Green D-PA voted yes
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA voted no
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA voted no
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA voted yes
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC voted yes
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC voted yes
- James Robert Mann D-SC voted yes
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD voted yes
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN voted yes
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted yes
- Earle Cabell D-TX voted yes
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted yes
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX voted yes
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted yes
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX voted yes
- John Andrew Young D-TX voted yes
And 14 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Elizabeth Bullock Andrews D-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- James Douglas (Mike) Mckevitt R-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Cliffard Dale Carlson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- 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
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- William Prather Curlin Jr. D-KY
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer 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
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-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
- William John Keating R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy 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
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- William Sheldrick Conover II R-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- 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
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage 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
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- 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
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Nicholas Joseph Begich D-AK
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-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
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Ella Tambussi Grasso D-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- John Bayard Anderson 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
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- William Robert Roy D-KS
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-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
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Edward Alexander Garmatz D-MD
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. 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
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-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
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Arthur Albert Link D-ND
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Frank James Brasco D-NY
- Bertram L. Podell D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- John Goodchild Dow D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- James Aloysius Byrne D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- James George Abourezk D-SD
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds 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
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- George William Andrews D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS
- John Melcher D-MT
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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