House roll call 1056 · 94th Congress · Aug 2, 1976
To suspend the rules and pass H.R. 14580, to amend the clayton act to provide for premerger notification and waiting requirements.
On Aug 2, 1976, the House voted 278–103 (HR 14580). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 213–40, Republicans 68–63. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 103 members voted against their own party.
During the 94th Congress (1975–1976), Gerald Ford was president, and Democrats held majorities in both the House and Senate.
- Yes
- 278
- No
- 103
- Did not vote
- 57
- Date
- Aug 2, 1976
By party
- Republicans68 yes · 63 no · 16 didn’t vote
- Democrats213 yes · 40 no · 41 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK voted no
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL voted no
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL voted no
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL voted no
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA voted no
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA voted no
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA voted no
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted no
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA voted no
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO voted no
- Richard Kelly R-FL voted no
- Charles William (Bill) Young 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
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA voted no
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted no
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL voted no
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- David Conner Treen R-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- William Henson Moore III R-LA voted no
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA voted no
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD voted no
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- William S. Broomfield R-MI voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted no
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted no
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted no
- William Thad Cochran R-MS voted no
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS voted no
- John Melcher D-MT voted no
- David Newton Henderson D-NC voted no
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC voted no
- Mark Andrews R-ND voted no
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE voted no
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE voted no
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM voted no
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM 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
- William Howard Harsha R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH voted no
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH voted no
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH voted no
- John William Stanton R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK voted no
- John Jarman R-OK voted no
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA voted no
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA voted no
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA voted no
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA voted no
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA voted no
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI voted no
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC voted no
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC voted no
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC voted no
And 23 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) 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
- 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
- William Lehman D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- Tim Lee Hall D-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Charles Thone R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- William John Hughes D-NJ
- James John Howard D-NJ
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Gene Andrew Maguire D-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
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- James David Santini D-NV
- Otis Grey Pike D-NY
- Thomas Joseph Downey D-NY
- Jerome Anthony Ambro Jr. D-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
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Richard Lawrence Ottinger D-NY
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY
- Matthew Francis Mchugh D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-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
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula 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
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. 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
- 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
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker 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
- Alvin James Baldus D-WI
- Clement John Zablocki D-WI
- Henry Schoellkopf Reuss D-WI
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-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
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- John Melcher D-MT
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman R-OK
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
Did not vote
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth 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
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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