House roll call 518 · 92nd Congress · Jul 31, 1972
To suspend the rules and pass H.R. 5741, a bill to authorize the secretary of commerce to transfer surplus liberty ships to states for use in marine life conser
On Jul 31, 1972, the House voted 325–2 (HR 5741). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 185–0, Republicans 141–2. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 2 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
- 325
- No
- 2
- Did not vote
- 115
- Date
- Jul 31, 1972
By party
- Democrats185 yes · 0 no · 73 didn’t vote
- Republicans141 yes · 2 no · 42 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- John George Schmitz R-CA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- Nicholas Joseph Begich D-AK
- 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
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Sam Steiger 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
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-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
- Craig Hosmer 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
- John Stephen Monagan D-CT
- Ella Tambussi Grasso D-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- 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
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Frederick Delbert Schwengel R-IA
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy 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
- Sidney Richard Yates D-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
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- John Brademas D-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
- 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
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- William Prather Curlin Jr. D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Louise Day Hicks D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Hastings Keith R-MA
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- 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
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- William Dodd Hathaway D-ME
- 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
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-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
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Raleigh Hull Jr. D-MO
- Durward Gorham Hall R-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
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Meyers Colmer D-MS
- Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Nick Galifianakis D-NC
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-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
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- James John Howard D-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
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Florence Price Dwyer R-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
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-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
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- John Goodchild Dow D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Carleton James King R-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
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-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
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- 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
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- 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
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-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
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- William Sheldrick Conover II R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys 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
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-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
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young 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
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- 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
- Thomas Minor Pelly R-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks 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
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-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
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
Did not vote
- George William Andrews D-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- James Douglas (Mike) Mckevitt R-CO
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Roman Conrad Pucinski D-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- 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
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- John Melcher D-MT
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Seymour Halpern R-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Emanuel Celler D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid R-NY
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- John Lanneau Mcmillan D-SC
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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