House roll call 16 · 93rd Congress · Feb 28, 1973
To agree to H. RES. 256, a resolution creating a select committee to investigate all aspects of crime affecting the United States.
On Feb 28, 1973, the House voted 317–75 (HRES 256). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 207–13, Republicans 109–62, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 75 members voted against their own party.
During the 93rd Congress (1973–1974), Richard Nixon was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 317
- No
- 75
- Did not vote
- 50
- Date
- Feb 28, 1973
By party
- Republicans109 yes · 62 no · 24 didn’t vote
- Democrats207 yes · 13 no · 26 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted no
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA voted no
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted no
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA voted no
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL voted no
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted no
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted no
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted no
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- John Richard Rarick D-LA voted no
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD voted no
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD voted no
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME voted no
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted no
- Robert James Huber R-MI voted no
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted no
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS voted no
- Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-MT voted no
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC voted no
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE voted no
- David Thomas Martin R-NE voted no
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH voted no
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted no
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ voted no
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted no
- David Gilmer Towell R-NV voted no
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY voted no
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY voted no
- Jack French Kemp R-NY voted no
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH voted no
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted no
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH voted no
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR voted no
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR voted no
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA voted no
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA voted no
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA voted no
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC voted no
- Edward Lunn Young R-SC voted no
- James Abdnor R-SD voted no
- John James Duncan R-TN voted no
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN voted no
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN voted no
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted no
- George William Whitehurst R-VA voted no
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA voted no
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA voted no
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA voted no
- William Creed Wampler R-VA voted no
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT voted no
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA voted no
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI voted no
- Harold Vernon Froehlich R-WI voted no
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-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
- 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
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-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
- William Dawson (Bill) Gunter Jr. D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. 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
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Robert Paul Hanrahan R-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Samuel Hollingsworth Young R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray 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
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- William Herbert Hudnut III R-IN
- 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
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Paul William Cronin R-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley O-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-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
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg 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
- 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
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- John Melcher D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- James John Howard 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
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Joseph James Maraziti R-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Angelo Dominick Roncallo R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-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
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- William John Keating R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-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
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks 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
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-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
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Douglas Wayne Owens D-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Joel McFee Pritchard 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
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-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
How each representative voted: No
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Robert James Huber R-MI
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-MT
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- David Gilmer Towell R-NV
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Edward Lunn Young R-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Harold Vernon Froehlich R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Clem Rogers Mcspadden D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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