House roll call 322 · 93rd Congress · Sep 6, 1973
To pass H. R. 8547.
On Sep 6, 1973, the House voted 220–133 (HR 8547). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 129–60, Republicans 91–73, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 133 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
- 220
- No
- 133
- Did not vote
- 88
- Date
- Sep 6, 1973
By party
- Republicans91 yes · 73 no · 31 didn’t vote
- Democrats129 yes · 60 no · 57 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK voted no
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted no
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR voted no
- Sam Steiger R-AZ voted no
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ voted no
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA voted no
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted no
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA voted no
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA voted no
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA voted no
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA voted no
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA voted no
- Craig Hosmer R-CA voted no
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA voted no
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA voted no
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA voted no
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA voted no
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA voted no
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA voted no
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO voted no
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted no
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- William Dawson (Bill) Gunter Jr. D-FL voted no
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted no
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted no
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA voted no
- John Chester Culver D-IA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted no
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA voted no
- Wiley Mayne R-IA voted no
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted no
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted no
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL voted no
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted no
- Paul Findley R-IL voted no
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted no
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN voted no
- David Worth Dennis R-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
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS voted no
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted no
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD voted no
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI voted no
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI voted no
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI voted no
- Robert James Huber R-MI voted no
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN voted no
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN voted no
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN voted no
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted no
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO voted no
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO voted no
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO voted no
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- Richard Gardner (Dick) Shoup R-MT voted no
- John Melcher D-MT voted no
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted no
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC voted no
And 53 more.
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
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Ella Tambussi Grasso D-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. 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
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Samuel Hollingsworth Young R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- William Herbert Hudnut III R-IN
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-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
- 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
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski 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
- David Gilmer Towell R-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- James Russell Grover Jr. R-NY
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Mario Biaggi 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
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-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
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell 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
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- John Jarman D-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III 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
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- John James Duncan R-TN
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Mike Mccormack 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
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- William Dawson (Bill) Gunter Jr. D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-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
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Robert James Huber R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton 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
- 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
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- William John Keating R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Edward Lunn Young R-SC
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Douglas Wayne Owens D-UT
- 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
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Robert Paul Hanrahan R-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- John Anton Blatnik D-MN
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Angelo Dominick Roncallo R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid D-NY
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Clem Rogers Mcspadden D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- William Jennings Bryan Dorn D-SC
- Thomas Smithwick Gettys D-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Harold Vernon Froehlich R-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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