House roll call 917 · 93rd Congress · Aug 21, 1974
To pass H.R. 15977.
On Aug 21, 1974, the House voted 330–67 (HR 15977). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 182–32, Republicans 148–35, Others 1–0. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 67 members voted against their own party.
During the 93rd Congress (1973–1974), Gerald Ford was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 330
- No
- 67
- Did not vote
- 44
- Date
- Aug 21, 1974
By party
- Republicans148 yes · 35 no · 12 didn’t vote
- Democrats182 yes · 32 no · 32 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
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ voted no
- John Emerson Moss D-CA voted no
- John Lowell Burton D-CA voted no
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA voted no
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted no
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted no
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL voted no
- James Andrew Haley D-FL voted no
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL voted no
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL voted no
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis 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
- Robert Paul Hanrahan R-IL voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted no
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN voted no
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted no
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted no
- Robert James Huber R-MI voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted no
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted no
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO voted no
- William Leonard Hungate D-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
- John Melcher D-MT voted no
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ voted no
- James John Howard D-NJ voted no
- Joseph James Maraziti R-NJ voted no
- David Gilmer Towell R-NV voted no
- Mario Biaggi D-NY voted no
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY voted no
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH 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
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH voted no
- John Jarman D-OK voted no
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK voted no
- John Herman Dent D-PA voted no
- Frank Edward Denholm D-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
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted no
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA voted no
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA voted no
- William Creed Wampler R-VA voted no
- Harold Vernon Froehlich R-WI voted no
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Harold Terry Johnson 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
- Robert John Lagomarsino 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
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Craig Hosmer R-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Richard Thomas Hanna D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Victor Vincent Veysey R-CA
- Donald Glenn Brotzman R-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-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
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Benjamin Bentley Blackburn R-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt 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
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Harold Reginald Collier R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Samuel Hollingsworth Young R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Leslie Cornelius Arends R-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-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
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- David Worth Dennis R-IN
- William Herbert Hudnut III 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
- 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
- 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
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland 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
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt 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
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Charles Ernest Chamberlain R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. R-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-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
- William David Ford 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
- 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
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-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
- Wilmer David (Vinegar Bend) Mizell R-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Earl Baker Ruth R-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- David Thomas Martin R-NE
- Louis Crosby Wyman R-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- Charles William Sandman Jr. R-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
- Matthew John Rinaldo 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
- 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
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Howard Winfield Robison 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
- 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
- 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
- Thomas Jefferson Steed 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
- William Joseph Green 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
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- George Atlee Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos 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
- James Abdnor R-SD
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Robert Dale Price R-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
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- Stanford E. Parris R-VA
- Joel Thomas Broyhill R-VA
- Richard Walker Mallary R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley D-WA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
- Brockman (Brock) Adams D-WA
- Robert William Kastenmeier D-WI
- Vernon Wallace Thomson R-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Glenn Robert Davis R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
How each representative voted: No
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Harold Royce Gross R-IA
- William Joseph Scherle R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Robert Paul Hanrahan R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Earl Fredrick Landgrebe R-IN
- William Gilmer Bray R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Roger Herschel Zion R-IN
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- Robert James Huber R-MI
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- John Melcher D-MT
- John Edmund Hunt R-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Joseph James Maraziti R-NJ
- David Gilmer Towell R-NV
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- Thomas Andrew Luken D-OH
- 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
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- John Jarman D-OK
- John Newbold Happy Camp R-OK
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Frank Edward Denholm D-SD
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Dan Heflin Kuykendall R-TN
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Harold Vernon Froehlich R-WI
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
Did not vote
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- William Somers Mailliard R-CA
- Charles McKevett Teague R-CA
- Chester Earl Holifield D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- Robert Hampton Steele R-CT
- William Dawson (Bill) Gunter Jr. D-FL
- John William Davis D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- John Richard Rarick D-LA
- Harold Daniel Donohue D-MA
- William Oswald Mills R-MD
- Lawrence Joseph Hogan R-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. R-MI
- James Harvey R-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- Martha Wright Griffiths D-MI
- Frank James Brasco D-NY
- Bertram L. Podell D-NY
- John James Rooney D-NY
- Hugh Leo Carey D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Ogden Rogers Reid D-NY
- William John Keating R-OH
- Clem Rogers Mcspadden D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Edith Starrett Green D-OR
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- John Phillips Saylor R-PA
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- LaMar Baker R-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Ovie Clark Fisher D-TX
- Julia Butler Hansen D-WA
- Leslie Aspin D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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