House roll call 28 · 93rd Congress · Mar 13, 1973
To pass H.R. 71, a bill to strengthen and improve the older americans act of 1965.
On Mar 13, 1973, the House voted 329–69 (HR 71). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 215–4, Republicans 114–65, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 69 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
- 329
- No
- 69
- Did not vote
- 43
- Date
- Mar 13, 1973
By party
- Republicans114 yes · 65 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Democrats215 yes · 4 no · 27 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted no
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted no
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
- Sam Steiger R-AZ voted no
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA voted no
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA voted no
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA voted no
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA voted no
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA voted no
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted no
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO voted no
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA voted no
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted no
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- Paul Findley R-IL voted no
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN voted no
- David Worth Dennis R-IN voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- David Conner Treen R-LA voted no
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI voted no
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI voted no
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI voted no
- Robert James Huber R-MI voted no
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted no
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC voted no
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE voted no
- David Thomas Martin R-NE voted no
- David Gilmer Towell R-NV voted no
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY voted no
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY voted no
- Jack French Kemp R-NY voted no
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH voted no
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH voted no
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted no
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- John Jarman D-OK voted no
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK voted no
- John Haines Ware III R-PA voted no
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA voted no
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA voted no
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA voted no
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA voted no
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA voted no
- LaMar Baker R-TN voted no
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN voted no
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX voted no
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted no
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX voted no
- George William Whitehurst R-VA voted no
- David Edward Satterfield III D-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
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA voted no
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA voted no
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA voted no
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI voted no
How each representative voted: Yes
- 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
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-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
- 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
- Charles McKevett Teague R-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
- Carlos John Moorhead R-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
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-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
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. 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
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- 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
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum 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
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Robert Paul Hanrahan 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
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan 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
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- William Herbert Hudnut III R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-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
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux 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
- Torbert Hart Macdonald 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
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe 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
- 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
- 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
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-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
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III 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
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Charles William Sandman Jr. 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
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Joseph James Maraziti R-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Angelo Dominick Roncallo R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- 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
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch 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
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- William John Keating R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. 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
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Clem Rogers Mcspadden D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman 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
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- Edward Lunn Young R-SC
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-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
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Douglas Wayne Owens D-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard 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
- 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
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Harold Vernon Froehlich R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- 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 Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Robert James Huber R-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- David Gilmer Towell R-NV
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- William Robert Roy D-KS
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
Other votes
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