House roll call 447 · 93rd Congress · Nov 30, 1973
To amend H. R. 11575 by reducing the troop level by 22,000.
On Nov 30, 1973, the House voted 160–210 (HR 11575). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 107–101, Republicans 53–109, Others 1–0. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 154 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
- 160
- No
- 210
- Did not vote
- 71
- Date
- Nov 30, 1973
By party
- Republicans53 yes · 109 no · 33 didn’t vote
- Democrats107 yes · 101 no · 38 didn’t vote
- Others1 yes · 0 no
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR voted no
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR voted no
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA voted no
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA voted no
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA voted yes
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA voted no
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA voted no
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted yes
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted yes
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted yes
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE voted yes
- 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
- William Dawson (Bill) Gunter Jr. D-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted yes
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL voted no
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA voted yes
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA voted no
- Wiley Mayne R-IA voted yes
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL voted no
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL voted no
- Frank Annunzio D-IL voted no
- Robert Mcclory R-IL voted yes
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL voted yes
- Paul Findley R-IL voted yes
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted yes
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL voted no
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL voted no
- David Worth Dennis R-IN voted yes
- Joe Skubitz R-KS voted yes
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY voted no
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA voted no
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted no
- Gillis William Long D-LA voted no
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted yes
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA voted yes
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted yes
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME voted yes
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI voted yes
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI voted yes
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI voted yes
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI voted yes
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI voted no
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted no
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted yes
- John Matthew Zwach R-MN voted yes
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II 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
- 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
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC voted no
And 74 more.
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Jerome Russell Waldie D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson 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
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- John Chester Culver D-IA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- Wiley Mayne R-IA
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- William Robert Roy D-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-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
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- Peter Nicholas Kyros D-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-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 Leonard Hungate D-MO
- John Melcher D-MT
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Robert A. Roe D-NJ
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- 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
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Frank James Brasco D-NY
- Bertram L. Podell D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy 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
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- John Richard Dellenback R-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Frank Monroe Clark D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Robert Owens Tiernan D-RI
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- James Abdnor R-SD
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Stanford E. Parris 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
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- 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
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Charles Samuel Gubser R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Robert Bruce (Bob) Mathias R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- 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
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Orval Howard Hansen R-ID
- Robert Paul Hanrahan R-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Samuel Hollingsworth Young R-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Kenneth James Gray D-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- William Herbert Hudnut III R-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Frank Albert Stubblefield D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Paul William Cronin R-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Robert James Huber R-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Ancher Nelsen R-MN
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II 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
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-NJ
- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. R-NJ
- William Beck Widnall R-NJ
- Joseph James Maraziti R-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- David Gilmer Towell R-NV
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- John Michael Murphy 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
- Carleton James King R-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- Henry P. Smith III R-NY
- Thaddeus Joseph Dulski D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Walter Eugene Powell R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- William Edwin Minshall Jr. R-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman D-OK
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- John Haines Ware III R-PA
- Lawrence Gordon Williams R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- 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
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson 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
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- 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
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Harold Vernon Froehlich R-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-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
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- John William Davis D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- William John Keating R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Clem Rogers Mcspadden D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- Wendell Wyatt R-OR
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Edward Lunn Young R-SC
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Douglas Wayne Owens D-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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