House roll call 111 · 94th Congress · Apr 24, 1975
To pass H.R. 4975, proposed AMTRAK improvement act.
On Apr 24, 1975, the House voted 280–63 (HR 4975). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 213–38, Republicans 85–41. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 79 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
- 280
- No
- 63
- Did not vote
- 64
- Date
- Apr 24, 1975
By party
- Republicans85 yes · 41 no · 21 didn’t vote
- Democrats213 yes · 38 no · 43 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK voted no
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- Sam Steiger R-AZ voted no
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ voted no
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA voted no
- Robert John Lagomarsino 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
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted no
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA voted no
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA voted no
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO voted no
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO voted no
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA voted no
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA voted no
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald 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
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL voted no
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN voted no
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted no
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY voted no
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- William Henson Moore III R-LA voted no
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD voted no
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted no
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI voted no
- Gene Taylor R-MO voted no
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO 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
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC voted no
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC voted no
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC voted no
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC voted no
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM voted no
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted no
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH voted no
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH voted no
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH voted no
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH voted no
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH voted no
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH voted no
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK voted no
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC voted no
- James Abdnor R-SD voted no
- John James Duncan R-TN voted no
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN voted no
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN voted no
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN voted no
- Ed Jones D-TN voted no
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN voted no
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX voted no
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX 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
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- George Miller 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
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- 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
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-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
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- 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
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-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
- Edward Rell Madigan R-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
- 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
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- 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
- 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
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald 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
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- Donald MacKay Fraser D-MN
- Richard Michael Nolan D-MN
- Robert Selmer Bergland D-MN
- James Louis Oberstar D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Richard Walker Bolling D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith 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
- 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
- Dominick Vincent Daniels 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
- 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
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- Jonathan Brewster Bingham D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-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
- 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
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- John Jarman R-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-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
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- William Robert Poage 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
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Thomas Stephen Foley 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
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. 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
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
Did not vote
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
- David Ross Obey D-WI
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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