House roll call 591 · 92nd Congress · Sep 21, 1972
To pass H.R. 16705.
On Sep 21, 1972, the House voted 169–141 (HR 16705). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 134–112, Republicans 90–83. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 195 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
- 169
- No
- 141
- Did not vote
- 24
- Date
- Sep 21, 1972
By party
- Democrats134 yes · 112 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Republicans90 yes · 83 no · 12 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Nicholas Joseph Begich D-AK voted no
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted no
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted no
- Elizabeth Bullock Andrews D-AL voted no
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- Sam Steiger R-AZ voted no
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted no
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted no
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA voted no
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA voted no
- H. Allen Smith R-CA voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA voted no
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA voted no
- John George Schmitz R-CA voted no
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA voted no
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA voted no
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO voted no
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL voted no
- Don Fuqua D-FL voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL voted no
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted no
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA voted no
- Standish Fletcher Thompson R-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- John William Davis D-GA voted no
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- John Henry Kyl R-IA voted no
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA voted no
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID voted no
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL voted no
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN voted no
- John Edward Roush D-IN voted no
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted no
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN voted no
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS voted no
- William Robert Roy D-KS voted no
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS voted no
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted no
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted no
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted no
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA voted no
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD voted no
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI voted no
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI voted no
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI voted no
- William David Ford D-MI voted no
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI voted no
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI voted no
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN voted no
And 115 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson 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
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-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
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- James Douglas (Mike) Mckevitt R-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-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
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- 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
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski 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
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Cliffard Dale Carlson R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Kenneth James Gray 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
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Thomas Hale Boggs Sr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman 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
- 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
- Gilbert Gude R-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
- 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
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield 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
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling 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
- 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
- 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
- Emanuel Celler 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
- Bella Savitzky Abzug 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
- James Michael Hanley D-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
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- William Moore Mcculloch R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Frank Townsend Bow R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Edmond Augustus Edmondson D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman 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
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- William Robert Anderson D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Sherman Parkinson Lloyd R-UT
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson 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
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- John William Byrnes R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Alvin Edward O'Konski R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- James Kee D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Nicholas Joseph Begich D-AK
- 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
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- H. Allen Smith R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- John George Schmitz R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- 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
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- George Elliott Hagan D-GA
- 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
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- John Henry Kyl R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- James Albertus Mcclure R-ID
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- William Robert Roy D-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Patrick Thomson Caffery D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Speedy Oteria Long D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Jack H. Mcdonald R-MI
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- John Hart Terry R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Jackson Edward Betts R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- John Irving Whalley R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-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
- 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
- Leonard Ray Blanton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John Vernard Dowdy D-TX
- 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
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Graham Boynton Purcell Jr. 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
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Watkins Moorman Abbitt D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- William Lloyd Scott R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- George William Andrews D-AL
- David Hampton Pryor D-AR
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- George Washington Collins D-IL
- Charlotte Thompson Reid R-IL
- William Lee Springer R-IL
- John Clarence Watts D-KY
- William Prather Curlin Jr. D-KY
- Edwin Washington Edwards D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Frank Bradford Morse R-MA
- Rogers Clark Ballard Morton R-MD
- Charles Raper Jonas R-NC
- Cornelius Edward Gallagher D-NJ
- William Fitts Ryan D-NY
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- Page Henry Belcher R-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Robert James Corbett R-PA
- James Grove Fulton R-PA
- Richard Harding Poff R-VA
- Robert Theodore Stafford R-VT
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.