House roll call 458 · 92nd Congress · Jun 15, 1972
To amend H.R. 15417 so as to exempt firms employing 25 persons or less from compliance with the occupational safety and health act of 1970.
On Jun 15, 1972, the House voted 213–154 (HR 15417). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 80–133, Republicans 134–22. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 102 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
- 213
- No
- 154
- Did not vote
- 74
- Date
- Jun 15, 1972
By party
- Democrats80 yes · 133 no · 45 didn’t vote
- Republicans134 yes · 22 no · 29 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Elizabeth Bullock Andrews D-AL voted yes
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted yes
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted yes
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted yes
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted no
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA voted yes
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO voted yes
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT voted no
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT voted yes
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes 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
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted yes
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted yes
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted yes
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted yes
- John William Davis D-GA voted yes
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted yes
- John Chester Culver D-IA voted yes
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID voted no
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted no
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted yes
- John Edward Roush D-IN voted yes
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN voted yes
- William Robert Roy D-KS voted yes
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted yes
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted yes
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted yes
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted no
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI voted no
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI voted no
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted yes
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted yes
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS voted yes
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS voted yes
- John Melcher D-MT voted yes
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted yes
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC voted yes
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC voted yes
- Alton Asa Lennon D-NC voted yes
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted yes
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted yes
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV voted yes
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY voted yes
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY voted no
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY voted no
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY voted no
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted no
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted yes
- William John Keating R-OH voted no
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH voted no
- John Jarman D-OK voted yes
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR voted no
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR voted yes
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA voted no
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA voted no
- Frank Monroe Clark 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
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC voted yes
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD voted yes
- William Robert Anderson D-TN voted yes
- Ed Jones D-TN voted yes
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted yes
- Earle Cabell D-TX voted yes
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX voted yes
And 22 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Elizabeth Bullock Andrews 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
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- James Douglas (Mike) Mckevitt R-CO
- Wayne Norviel Aspinall D-CO
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes 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
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- 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
- John William Davis D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Cliffard Dale Carlson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- John Edward Roush D-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
- 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
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-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
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Charles Hudson Griffin D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Nick Galifianakis 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
- 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
- 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
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Walter Stephan Baring Jr. D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Alexander Pirnie R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- John Hart Terry R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch 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
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- William Sheldrick Conover II R-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Ed Jones 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
- Jack Bascom Brooks 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
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher 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
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
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
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- George Paul Miller D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Ella Tambussi Grasso D-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-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
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- 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
- 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
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- 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
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- James John Howard 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
- 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
- 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
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- William John Keating R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-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
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- 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
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
Did not vote
- George William Andrews D-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- William Prather Curlin Jr. D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-MO
- Thomas Gerstle Abernethy D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Arthur Albert Link D-ND
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- James George Abourezk D-SD
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- James Kee D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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