House roll call 1193 · 94th Congress · Sep 20, 1976
To suspend the rules and pass H.R. 15445, requiring the secretary of commerce to make a study on the gray whale and the bowhead whale and report measures for t
On Sep 20, 1976, the House voted 314–70 (HR 15445). Result: passed. By party: Democrats 214–38, Republicans 100–32. It was a bipartisan vote: majorities of both parties voted yes. 70 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
- 314
- No
- 70
- Did not vote
- 57
- Date
- Sep 20, 1976
By party
- Republicans100 yes · 32 no · 15 didn’t vote
- Democrats214 yes · 38 no · 42 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted no
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted no
- Walter Flowers D-AL voted no
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR voted no
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ voted no
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA voted no
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA voted no
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA voted no
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA voted no
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA voted no
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO voted no
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO voted no
- Richard Kelly R-FL voted no
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA voted no
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted no
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA voted no
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID voted no
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL voted no
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL voted no
- David Walter Evans D-IN voted no
- John Thomas Myers R-IN voted no
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY voted no
- William Huston Natcher D-KY voted no
- David Conner Treen R-LA voted no
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted no
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD voted no
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD voted no
- William Joseph Randall 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
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted no
- William Thad Cochran R-MS voted no
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS voted no
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM voted no
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY voted no
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY voted no
- James Michael Hanley D-NY voted no
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH voted no
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH voted no
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH voted no
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH voted no
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH voted no
- James Robert Jones D-OK voted no
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK voted no
- John Jarman R-OK voted no
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK voted no
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA voted no
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA voted no
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC voted no
- James Robert Mann 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
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN voted no
- Ed Jones D-TN voted no
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX voted no
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX voted no
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted no
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted no
- John Andrew Young D-TX voted no
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted no
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX voted no
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT voted no
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA voted no
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted no
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA voted no
The bill
How each representative voted: Yes
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- 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
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- Donald Holst Clausen R-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
- 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
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke 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
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth 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
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-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
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- 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
- 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
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- Tim Lee Hall D-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- Elwood Haynes Hillis 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
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- 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
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-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
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. 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
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- Lunsford Richardson Preyer D-NC
- Charles Grandison Rose III D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- Mark Andrews R-ND
- Charles Thone R-NE
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Norman Edward D'Amours D-NH
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH
- 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
- Peter Wallace Rodino Jr. D-NJ
- Joseph George Minish D-NJ
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ
- Edward James Patten D-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- 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
- Stephen Joshua Solarz D-NY
- Frederick William Richmond D-NY
- Leo C. Zeferetti D-NY
- Elizabeth Holtzman D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Edward Irving Koch D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Bella Savitzky Abzug 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
- Edward Worthington Pattison D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-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
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-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
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-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
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling 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
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Jack English Hightower D-TX
- Eligio De La Garza II (Kika) D-TX
- Richard Crawford White D-TX
- George Herman Mahon D-TX
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- George William Whitehurst R-VA
- Robert Williams Daniel Jr. R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- Herbert Eugene Harris II D-VA
- William Creed Wampler R-VA
- Joseph Lyman Fisher D-VA
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker 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
- 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
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Shirley Anita Chisholm D-NY
- Samuel Studdiford Stratton D-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- John Jarman R-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- John Andrew Young D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA
Did not vote
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-MI
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Willie Gathrel (Bill) Hefner D-NC
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- James Joseph Florio D-NJ
- Henry Helstoski D-NJ
- Helen Stevenson Meyner D-NJ
- Dominick Vincent Daniels D-NJ
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- Herman Badillo D-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle D-TX
- Barbara Charline Jordan D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Mike Mccormack D-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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