House roll call 1253 · 94th Congress · Sep 28, 1976
That the committee of the whole rise thus postponing action on H.R. 15.
On Sep 28, 1976, the House voted 148–202 (HR 15). Result: failed. By party: Democrats 54–173, Republicans 94–29. It was a split vote: the parties took opposite sides, with some members crossing over. 83 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
- 148
- No
- 202
- Did not vote
- 91
- Date
- Sep 28, 1976
By party
- Republicans94 yes · 29 no · 24 didn’t vote
- Democrats54 yes · 173 no · 67 didn’t vote
Who broke with their party
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL voted yes
- Tom Bevill D-AL voted yes
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR voted no
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA voted yes
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA voted yes
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA voted yes
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA voted no
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA voted yes
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA voted no
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA voted yes
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO voted yes
- William Ross Cotter D-CT voted yes
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT voted no
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT voted no
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL voted yes
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA voted yes
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL voted yes
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL voted yes
- Cardiss Collins D-IL voted yes
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL voted yes
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL voted no
- George Edward Shipley D-IL voted yes
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL voted yes
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA voted yes
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA voted no
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA voted yes
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD voted yes
- Gilbert Gude R-MD voted no
- David Farnham Emery R-ME voted no
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME voted no
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI voted yes
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI voted yes
- William Eldridge Frenzel R-MN voted no
- William Joseph Randall D-MO voted yes
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS voted yes
- David Reece Bowen D-MS voted yes
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS voted yes
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC voted yes
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC voted yes
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC voted yes
- Mark Andrews R-ND voted no
- Charles Thone R-NE voted no
- James Colgate Cleveland R-NH voted no
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick R-NJ voted no
- Matthew John Rinaldo R-NJ voted no
- Norman Frederick Lent R-NY voted no
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY voted yes
- Hamilton Fish Jr. R-NY voted no
- Benjamin Arthur Gilman R-NY voted no
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY voted no
- James Michael Hanley D-NY voted yes
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY voted no
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY voted yes
- James Robert Jones D-OK voted yes
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK voted yes
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK voted yes
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR voted yes
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA voted yes
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA voted no
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA voted yes
- John Herman Dent D-PA voted yes
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC voted yes
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC voted no
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC voted yes
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD voted no
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX voted yes
- Charles Wilson D-TX voted yes
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX voted yes
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX voted no
- William Robert Poage D-TX voted yes
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX voted yes
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX voted yes
- Dale Milford D-TX voted yes
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT voted yes
- Thomas Nelms Downing D-VA voted yes
- David Edward Satterfield III D-VA voted yes
- Wilbur Clarence (Dan) Daniel D-VA voted yes
- William Creed Wampler R-VA voted no
- James Merrill Jeffords R-VT voted no
- Joel McFee Pritchard R-WA voted no
And 3 more.
How each representative voted: Yes
- William Jackson (Jack) Edwards R-AL
- William Louis Dickinson R-AL
- William Flynt Nichols D-AL
- Tom Bevill D-AL
- John Hall Buchanan Jr. R-AL
- John Jacob Rhodes R-AZ
- Donald Holst Clausen R-CA
- Robert Louis Leggett D-CA
- Ronald V. Dellums D-CA
- Leo Joseph Ryan D-CA
- Paul Norton (Pete) Mccloskey Jr. R-CA
- Burt Lacklen Talcott R-CA
- William Matthew Ketchum R-CA
- Barry Morris Goldwater Jr. R-CA
- Carlos John Moorhead R-CA
- John Harbin Rousselot R-CA
- Alphonzo Bell R-CA
- Delwin Morgan Clawson R-CA
- James Fredrick Lloyd D-CA
- Charles Edward Wiggins R-CA
- Robert Carlton (Bob) Wilson R-CA
- Lionel Van Deerlin D-CA
- Clair Walter Burgener R-CA
- Frank Edward Evans D-CO
- James Paul (Jim) Johnson R-CO
- William Lester Armstrong R-CO
- William Ross Cotter D-CT
- Pierre Samuel Du Pont IV R-DE
- William Venroe Chappell Jr. D-FL
- Richard Kelly R-FL
- Charles William (Bill) Young R-FL
- Louis Frey Jr. R-FL
- Louis Arthur (Skip) Bafalis R-FL
- J. Herbert Burke R-FL
- Lawrence Patton Mcdonald D-GA
- Charles Ernest Grassley R-IA
- Steven Douglas Symms R-ID
- George Vernon Hansen R-ID
- Ralph Harold Metcalfe D-IL
- Morgan Francis Murphy D-IL
- Edward Joseph Derwinski R-IL
- Henry John Hyde R-IL
- Cardiss Collins D-IL
- Sidney Richard Yates D-IL
- Philip Miller Crane R-IL
- Robert Mcclory R-IL
- John Neal Erlenborn R-IL
- George Miller O'Brien R-IL
- Robert Henry Michel R-IL
- George Edward Shipley D-IL
- Paul Martin Simon D-IL
- Elwood Haynes Hillis R-IN
- John Thomas Myers R-IN
- Keith George Sebelius R-KS
- Edward Lawrence Winn Jr. (Larry) R-KS
- Garner E. Shriver R-KS
- Joe Skubitz R-KS
- Marion Gene Snyder R-KY
- Tim Lee Carter R-KY
- David Conner Treen R-LA
- Joseph David Waggonner Jr. D-LA
- William Henson Moore III R-LA
- Michael Joseph Harrington D-MA
- Margaret M. Heckler R-MA
- Robert Edmund Bauman R-MD
- Clarence Dickinson Long D-MD
- Marjorie Sewell Holt R-MD
- Garry Eldridge Brown R-MI
- Guy Adrian Vander Jagt R-MI
- Elford Albin Cederberg R-MI
- Philip Edward Ruppe R-MI
- Charles Coles Diggs Jr. D-MI
- John David Dingell Jr. D-MI
- William S. Broomfield R-MI
- Albert Harold Quie R-MN
- Thomas Michael Hagedorn R-MN
- William Joseph Randall D-MO
- Gene Taylor R-MO
- Jamie Lloyd Whitten D-MS
- David Reece Bowen D-MS
- Gillespie V. (Sonny) Montgomery D-MS
- William Thad Cochran R-MS
- Chester Trent Lott R-MS
- Walter Beaman Jones Sr. D-NC
- Lawrence H. Fountain D-NC
- Ike Franklin Andrews D-NC
- James Grubbs Martin R-NC
- James Thomas Broyhill R-NC
- Virginia Dodd Smith R-NE
- Edwin Bell Forsythe R-NJ
- Manuel Luján Jr. R-NM
- John Waldemar Wydler R-NY
- James Joseph Delaney D-NY
- Robert Cameron Mcewen R-NY
- James Michael Hanley D-NY
- William Francis Walsh R-NY
- John Joseph Lafalce D-NY
- Jack French Kemp R-NY
- Willis David Gradison Jr. R-OH
- Charles William Whalen Jr. R-OH
- Delbert Leroy Latta R-OH
- William Howard Harsha R-OH
- Clarence E. Miller R-OH
- John William Stanton R-OH
- Samuel Leeper Devine R-OH
- Charles Adams Mosher R-OH
- Chalmers Pangburn Wylie R-OH
- Ralph Straus Regula R-OH
- John Milan Ashbrook R-OH
- James Robert Jones D-OK
- Theodore Marshall Risenhoover D-OK
- Glenn Lee English Jr. D-OK
- Robert Blackford Duncan D-OR
- Richard Taylor Schulze R-PA
- Edward George Biester Jr. R-PA
- E. G. (Bud) Shuster R-PA
- John Patrick Murtha Jr. D-PA
- William Franklin Goodling R-PA
- Joseph Matthew Gaydos D-PA
- John Herman Dent D-PA
- Albert Walter Johnson R-PA
- Gary Arthur Myers R-PA
- Mendel Jackson Davis D-SC
- Kenneth Lamar Holland D-SC
- James Abdnor R-SD
- James Henry Quillen R-TN
- John James Duncan R-TN
- Robin Leo Beard Jr. R-TN
- Sam Blakeley Hall Jr. D-TX
- Charles Wilson D-TX
- James Mitchell Collins R-TX
- Herbert Ray Roberts D-TX
- William Robert Poage D-TX
- Omar Truman Burleson D-TX
- Robert Charles Krueger D-TX
- Ronald Ernest Paul R-TX
- Dale Milford D-TX
- Koln Gunn Mckay D-UT
- 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
- Manley Caldwell Butler R-VA
- James Kenneth Robinson R-VA
- William Albert Steiger R-WI
- Robert Homer Mollohan D-WV
- John Mark Slack Jr. D-WV
How each representative voted: No
- Robert Emmett Jones Jr. D-AL
- Walter Flowers D-AL
- William Vollie (Bill) Alexander Jr. D-AR
- Wilbur Daigh Mills D-AR
- John Paul Hammerschmidt R-AR
- Raymond Hoyt (Ray) Thornton Jr. D-AR
- Harold Terry Johnson D-CA
- John Lowell Burton D-CA
- Phillip Burton D-CA
- George Miller D-CA
- Fortney Hillman (Pete) Stark Jr. D-CA
- William Donlon (Don) Edwards D-CA
- Norman Y. Mineta D-CA
- John Hans Krebs D-CA
- Robert John Lagomarsino R-CA
- James Charles Corman D-CA
- Henry Arnold Waxman D-CA
- Edward R. Roybal D-CA
- Yvonne Brathwaite Burke D-CA
- George Elmore Danielson D-CA
- Glenn Malcolm Anderson D-CA
- Mark Warren Hannaford D-CA
- Shirley Neil Pettis R-CA
- Jerry Mumford Patterson D-CA
- Patricia Scott Schroeder D-CO
- Timothy E. Wirth D-CO
- Christopher John Dodd D-CT
- Stewart Brett Mckinney R-CT
- Ronald Arthur Sarasin R-CT
- Anthony John Moffett Jr. (Toby) D-CT
- Don Fuqua D-FL
- Charles Edward Bennett D-FL
- Sam Melville Gibbons D-FL
- Paul Grant Rogers D-FL
- William Lehman D-FL
- Dante Bruno Fascell D-FL
- Ronald Bryan (Bo) Ginn D-GA
- Marvin Dawson Mathis D-GA
- Jack Thomas Brinkley D-GA
- Edward Maurice Mezvinsky D-IA
- Michael Thomas Blouin D-IA
- Neal Edward Smith D-IA
- Thomas Richard (Tom) Harkin D-IA
- Berkley Warren Bedell D-IA
- Martin Anthony Russo D-IL
- John G. Fary D-IL
- Abner Joseph Mikva D-IL
- Tim Lee Hall D-IL
- Thomas Fisher Railsback R-IL
- Charles Melvin Price D-IL
- Floyd James Fithian D-IN
- John Brademas D-IN
- John Edward Roush D-IN
- David Walter Evans D-IN
- Philip Harold Hayes D-IN
- Lee Herbert Hamilton D-IN
- Philip Riley Sharp D-IN
- Andrew Jacobs Jr. D-IN
- Martha Elizabeth Keys D-KS
- Carroll Hubbard Jr. D-KY
- William Huston Natcher D-KY
- Romano Louis Mazzoli D-KY
- John Bayne Breckinridge D-KY
- Carl Dewey Perkins D-KY
- Gillis William Long D-LA
- Silvio Ottavio Conte R-MA
- Edward Patrick Boland D-MA
- Robert Frederick Drinan D-MA
- Paul Efthemios Tsongas D-MA
- Thomas Philip (Tip) O'Neill Jr. D-MA
- John Joseph Moakley D-MA
- James Anthony Burke D-MA
- Gerry Eastman Studds D-MA
- Gladys Noon Spellman D-MD
- Parren James Mitchell D-MD
- Gilbert Gude R-MD
- David Farnham Emery R-ME
- William Sebastian Cohen R-ME
- Richard Franklin Vander Veen D-MI
- Milton Robert (Bob) Carr D-MI
- Jerome Bob Traxler D-MI
- Lucien Norbert Nedzi D-MI
- William David Ford D-MI
- William McNulty Brodhead D-MI
- James Johnston Blanchard D-MI
- 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 Walker Bolling D-MO
- Richard Howard Ichord II D-MO
- William Leonard Hungate D-MO
- Bill D. Burlison D-MO
- Max Sieben Baucus D-MT
- John Melcher D-MT
- Stephen Lybrook Neal D-NC
- 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
- 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
- Millicent Hammond Fenwick 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
- Lester Lionel Wolff D-NY
- Joseph Patrick Addabbo D-NY
- Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal 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
- Bella Savitzky Abzug 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
- Donald Jerome Mitchell R-NY
- Frank Jefferson Horton R-NY
- Henry James Nowak D-NY
- Stanley Nelson Lundine D-NY
- John Frederick Seiberling D-OH
- Charles Albert Vanik D-OH
- Ronald Milton Mottl D-OH
- Thomas Jefferson Steed D-OK
- Les Aucoin D-OR
- James Howard Weaver D-OR
- Gus Yatron D-PA
- Robert William Edgar D-PA
- Daniel John Flood D-PA
- Robert Lawrence Coughlin R-PA
- William Singer Moorhead D-PA
- Frederick Bernard Rooney D-PA
- Thomas Ellsworth Morgan D-PA
- Fernand Joseph St. Germain D-RI
- Edward Peter Beard D-RI
- Floyd Davidson Spence R-SC
- Butler Carson Derrick Jr. D-SC
- James Robert Mann D-SC
- John Wilson Jenrette Jr. D-SC
- Larry Lee Pressler R-SD
- Marilyn Laird Lloyd D-TN
- Clifford Robertson Allen D-TN
- Ed Jones D-TN
- Harold Eugene Ford D-TN
- William Reynolds Archer Jr. R-TX
- Robert Christian Eckhardt D-TX
- Jack Bascom Brooks D-TX
- James Jarrell (Jake) Pickle 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
- Henry B. González D-TX
- Abraham Kazen Jr. D-TX
- Allan Turner Howe D-UT
- 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
- Edwin Lloyd Meeds D-WA
- Don Leroy Bonker D-WA
- Mike Mccormack 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
- David Ross Obey D-WI
- Robert John Cornell D-WI
- Robert Walter Kasten Jr. R-WI
- Harley Orrin Staggers D-WV
- Kenneth William Hechler D-WV
- Teno Roncalio D-WY
Did not vote
- Donald Edwin Young R-AK
- Morris King Udall D-AZ
- Sam Steiger R-AZ
- John Bertrand Conlan R-AZ
- John Emerson Moss D-CA
- John Joseph Mcfall D-CA
- Bernice Frederic Sisk D-CA
- Thomas Mankell Rees D-CA
- Augustus Freeman (Gus) Hawkins D-CA
- Charles Herbert Wilson D-CA
- George Edward Brown Jr. D-CA
- Jerry Lyle Pettis R-CA
- Andrew Jackson Hinshaw R-CA
- Robert Nicholas Giaimo D-CT
- Robert Lee Fulton Sikes D-FL
- James Andrew Haley D-FL
- Claude Denson Pepper D-FL
- Elliott Harris Levitas D-GA
- Andrew Jackson Young Jr. D-GA
- John James Flynt Jr. D-GA
- Williamson Sylvester Stuckey Jr. D-GA
- Phillip Mitchell Landrum D-GA
- Robert Grier Stephens Jr. D-GA
- Spark Masayuki Matsunaga D-HI
- Patsy Takemoto Mink D-HI
- John Carl Kluczynski D-IL
- Daniel David Rostenkowski D-IL
- Frank Annunzio D-IL
- John Bayard Anderson R-IL
- Paul Findley R-IL
- Edward Rell Madigan R-IL
- Ray John Madden D-IN
- Felix Edward Hébert D-LA
- Corinne Claiborne (Lindy) Boggs D-LA
- Otto Ernest Passman D-LA
- John Berlinger Breaux D-LA
- Joseph Daniel Early D-MA
- Torbert Hart Macdonald D-MA
- Paul Spyros Sarbanes D-MD
- Goodloe Edgar Byron D-MD
- John Conyers Jr. D-MI
- Marvin Leonel Esch R-MI
- J. Edward Hutchinson R-MI
- Donald Wayne Riegle Jr. D-MI
- James Grant O'Hara D-MI
- Joseph Edward Karth D-MN
- William Lacy Clay Sr. D-MO
- James Wadsworth Symington D-MO
- Leonor Kretzer Sullivan D-MO
- Jerry Lon Litton D-MO
- David Newton Henderson D-NC
- Roy Arthur Taylor D-NC
- John Yetter Mccollister R-NE
- Frank Thompson Jr. D-NJ
- Harold Lowell Runnels D-NM
- Mario Biaggi D-NY
- James Haas Scheuer D-NY
- John Michael Murphy D-NY
- Charles B. Rangel D-NY
- Peter A. Peyser R-NY
- Barber Benjamin Conable Jr. R-NY
- James Fred Hastings R-NY
- Donald Daniel Clancy R-OH
- Tennyson Guyer R-OH
- Clarence J. Brown Jr. R-OH
- Thomas Norman Kindness R-OH
- Thomas William Ludlow Ashley D-OH
- Wayne Levere Hays D-OH
- Charles Joseph Carney D-OH
- James Vincent Stanton D-OH
- Louis Stokes D-OH
- Carl Bert Albert D-OK
- John Jarman R-OK
- Albert Conrad Ullman D-OR
- William Aloysius Barrett D-PA
- Robert Nelson Cornelius Nix Sr. D-PA
- William Joseph Green D-PA
- Joshua Eilberg D-PA
- Joseph Michael Mcdade R-PA
- Edwin Duing Eshleman R-PA
- Herman Theodore Schneebeli R-PA
- Henry John Heinz III R-PA
- Joseph Phillip Vigorito D-PA
- Joseph Landon Evins D-TN
- Richard Harmon Fulton D-TN
- John William Wright Patman D-TX
- Alan Watson Steelman R-TX
- Olin Earl Teague D-TX
- James Claude Wright Jr. D-TX
- Robert Randolph Casey D-TX
- Floyd Verne Hicks D-WA
Other votes
From Voteview roll call records.
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